Quartz

Silicon dioxide (SiO4). For silica glass and optical memory. Often makes up most of a planet's crust.

Used To Craft

Battery Terminal builder ×2
System Chip fabricator ×2
Dedicated Core fabricator ×2
Dive Elevator builder ×2
Fabricator builder ×1
Distraction Flare fabricator ×1
Flashlight fabricator ×1
Floor Locker builder ×1
Glass fabricator ×2
Glowstick fabricator ×1
Lightstick fabricator ×1
Political Consciousness fabricator ×1
Scanner fabricator ×2
Solar Panel Scrap builder ×2
Solar Panel builder ×2
Echo Location modification-station ×3
Work Light builder ×2

Stats

Buoyancy: 0.6
Equipment slot: Tool
Mass: 10
Pickup destination: Inventory

PDA Databank

Quartz (SiO2). A silicate crystal named by the Polish. Quartz and feldspar make up most of Earth’s continental crust. Used in the creation of fabricator-aligned glass and ultra-long-term computer memory storage lasting billions of years. Typically found as phenocrysts formed from cooling lava — but some local deposits have a telltale bioplastic matrix. Hypothesis: a local coral gathers dissolved silica to grow quartz deposits.