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State three ways in which quartz and plagioclase feldspar are similar.

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Feldspar is the same arrangement of atoms, a framework arrangement, and one basic chemical recipe, a silicate recipe.
Quartz is another framework silicate, consisting only of oxygen and silicon, but feldspar has various other metals partly replacing the silicon.
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