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The word "crystal" comes from Ancient Greek. Greeks used this expression for ice, characterized by its purity, its clearness, its coolness. They were always surprised when ordinary water turned into "rock". They soon discovered, however, that something like ice can be found deep within mountains - the achromatic, pure, limpid and cool monocrystals of siliceous oxide. The Greek word for ice quickly transferred to this sought-after material and from that time, those achromatic silica monocrystals were known as rock crystal or mountain crystal. Rock crystal fascinated people even earlier in history, however. It is astonishing how quickly ancient civilisations learnt to cut rock crystal using sand, a material of equal hardness. Rock crystal was used to make jewelry, luxury items for the top society classes and also items related to sorcery. This furthered the perception of crystal as something stately and mysterious. After all, isn't the crystal ball the absolute essential oracle? More information about czech glass Would you like to know more about Czech glass, its history and our chandelier production technology? More information on these pages:
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