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Cleaning Without Chemicals
Rock&Gem Magazine
|January 2021
Do you have specimens like desert roses, quartz crystal clusters, or geode halves that sat for eons in the open before being collected?
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If so, those specimens probably have baked-in dirt, grime, desert varnish, or encrustations from moss and lichens. Scrub as much as you may with a toothbrush and pick away with a dental pick, yet grime remains lodged within cracks and crevices of mineral and crystal structures. What to do?
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