Can anyone tell me what this is?

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First, welcome to the forums. Second, I know nothing about rocks except that people say I have them in my head. There is a forum for rocks here and the folks there can, hopefully, help you. The one on the bottom left looks like petrified wood to me.

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Looks like small quartz crystals growing in a quartz (silica rich) matrix.
 

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I was curious because it has tiny little bubbly spheres Ive never seen before, I think its some kind of volcanic fossils but the different qartz crystals in different pieces soft glow under uv light different colors ranging from green to blue to orange but a soft glow not bright and some crystal looks a lot like emperial topaz but I'm not sure....
 

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I'm with Smokey on the general identification of the rock.

It appearance to be a silica-rich intrusive vein deposit. There appears to be several elements present as impurities, which might be the reason you optically see color variations by visible and UV.

I'm sure there are more minerals present than quartz. The bulk look like quartz.
 

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Thanks everyone.....
 

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