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 ...

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Quartz crystal, after all, has been the Natural State mineral for more than a half-century. The Blue Phantom quartz crystal was dug in Arkansas in the early 1930s. (Special to the Democrat-Gazette ...