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The following table serves as a guide to names that may be used by shops and traders to describe various minerals or rocks (composed of multiple minerals or mineral-like materials) especially when such a trade name differs from the name(s) typically used by geologists, mineralologists, or gemologists. It is less concerned with various configurations of crystals, such as a long skinny quartz crystal ("laser wand quartz") or a largely flattened quartz crystal ("tabular quartz"). It is not concerned with any supposed metaphysical qualities of the stone.