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  title: Certus Quartz Crystal
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- misc ingredients blocks
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# The Certus Quartz Crystal

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*"Certus Quartz Crystals possess the unique trait of accepting large quantities of energy into their crystalline matrix"*

One of the primary ingredients for AE2 blocks, [devices](../ae2-mechanics/devices.md), and items. Made by growing it from [budding certus](../ae2-mechanics/certus-growth.md).

## Some Alternate Recipes

<Recipe id="misc/deconstruction_certus_quartz_block" />

<Recipe id="transform/certus_quartz_crystals" />
