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Think of the steps on a very steep, nearly vertical stairway. Then, picture the steps (hence, ‘step like’) as being made of very tiny (hence ‘crypto”) quartz crystals stacked up, one on top the other, so that two of the six, long crystal ‘facets’ on each one forms the riser and tread of each crystalline stair-step.

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