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Published: August 6, 2026 By: The Crystal Studio Team The Sphatik Confusion We See Every Week Myth #1 — "Sphatik Is Just Glass" We hear this one at least three times a week. Someone walks in, picks up a sphatik bracelet, squints at it, and asks if it’s just fancy glass. We get why. Sphatik — the Sanskrit name for clear quartz — looks almost too clean at first glance. Clear, colorless, no visible inclusions. It reminds people of glass beads. Fair first impression. Here’s the thing. Glass and quartz are not even close chemically. Glass is amorphous — no internal crystal structure. Quartz is silicon dioxide in a hexagonal crystal lattice. You can feel the difference holding both. A GIA guide to quartz breaks this down better than we can, but the short version: quartz is a mineral, glass is not. Weight, temperature, how light moves through it — all different. We’ve had customers who spent years thinking their "sphatik" mala was glass, only to find out it was real quartz. Worth clearing up before