Nice specimen, Theodore!
As you know 'enhydro is a fairly common occurrence in quartz. However, many/most examples are hard to see without using transmitted light and microscope. All a but difficult with pieces weighing in pounds rather than in ounces, so with your specimen it's quite likely that you may not even spot
Here are a few in the natural seed plate of a synthetics hydrothermally grown specimen. The crystal is about 13mm in diameter so, as you can see the gas bubble in the largest of the two phase inclusions will be just a few microns in diameter only.Whether the crystals are clustered or grow singly won't affect the presence of inclusions - only the ease of spotting them.
First image, the seed plate with approx a 1mm width can just be seen running the length of the synthetic crystal but, at this magnification, the 'enhydros' can't be seen, even in his very clear crystal. Transmitted white light with the specimen between crossed polars
Second image is a zoomed crop of the file above refocussed to show part of the seed plat as sharply as possible. Just in this small section of the natural seed plate there are now over a dozen or so liquid and gas inclusions now to be seen.
As you know 'enhydro is a fairly common occurrence in quartz. However, many/most examples are hard to see without using transmitted light and microscope. All a but difficult with pieces weighing in pounds rather than in ounces, so with your specimen it's quite likely that you may not even spot
Here are a few in the natural seed plate of a synthetics hydrothermally grown specimen. The crystal is about 13mm in diameter so, as you can see the gas bubble in the largest of the two phase inclusions will be just a few microns in diameter only.Whether the crystals are clustered or grow singly won't affect the presence of inclusions - only the ease of spotting them.
First image, the seed plate with approx a 1mm width can just be seen running the length of the synthetic crystal but, at this magnification, the 'enhydros' can't be seen, even in his very clear crystal. Transmitted white light with the specimen between crossed polars
Second image is a zoomed crop of the file above refocussed to show part of the seed plat as sharply as possible. Just in this small section of the natural seed plate there are now over a dozen or so liquid and gas inclusions now to be seen.
