Pure quartz, or “rock crystal” from Brazil. Source: Didier Descouens, CC BY-SA 4.0. Pick up a rock almost anywhere on Earth and chances are pretty good that there’s at least some quartz in it.

Quartz crystal microbalance with dissipation. The adsorption behavior of polyelectrolytes on solid surfaces was studied using a QCM-D (QCM-Z500, KSV Ltd., Helsinki, Finland).

The crystal helps keep time thanks to a property known as piezoelectricity. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Quartz, made up ...

Moonstones in Montana, amethyst and emeralds in North Carolina, garnet and quartz in upstate New York. At pay-to-dig mines around the United States, visitors can paw through piles of mine tailings ...

However, quartz crystal oscillators are found in electronic systems, most familiarly in wristwatches. Industrial quartz applications sometimes use manufactured “synthetic quartz”. This material ...

The ‘Superman’ memory crystal is a futuristic storage technique with unprecedented features – including a 360 terabyte per disc data capacity, thermal stability up to 1000°C and a ...