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There is a tendency (on a very long timescale) for viteous quartz to
"devitrify", or return to a crystalline phase. This tendency is
accelerated by the presence of some foreign materials on the surface
of hot fused quartz, whence the warning that quartz light bulbs not
be handled with the bare hand.