Quartz when heat and pressure are apllied to it

If you melt and cool silicon dioxide under very special conditions 
in the laboratory we can grow a single crystalline form of 
silicon dioxide that we call quartz. In quartz crystals all of 
the molecules are aligned and bonded together in a regular three 
dimensional tetrahedral structure forming a very hard, transparent 
material with special electronic properties. 

Because electrons have negligible mass, to account for the mass of the isotope, there must be 16 neutrons, 16 neutrally charged, massive, fundamental particles present in the sulfur nucleus. and thus finally, if we have the 32s2− ion, there are 18 electrons, 16 protons, and 16 neutrons.