Made Of

Everything is made of something.

← What it takes

What it leads to →

Made from

quartz

Comes from

mine

5steps from the big bang

116things can go into it

high-purity quartz

NaturalMineral

Most of the quartz pure enough for chip-making crucibles, roughly 70 to 90%, comes from one small town: Spruce Pine, North Carolina.

First appearedAbout 380 million years ago

Goes into

fused silicaquartz crucible

Most of the quartz pure enough for chip-making crucibles, roughly 70 to 90%, comes from one small town: Spruce Pine, North Carolina.

From the big bang to high-purity quartz

The most direct chain from the start of the universe, following what things are made from and, for living things, what they evolved from. Each step shows when it first appeared.

big bang13.8 bn yrs ago

Hhydrogen13.8 bn yrs ago

star13.6 bn yrs ago

Ooxygen13.6 bn yrs ago

quartz4.4 bn yrs ago

high-purity quartzc. 380 m yrs ago