Aside from its aesthetic charms, and disregarding the claims of mysterious powers made by crystal enthusiasts, quartz has a lot of industrial uses. Its abundance of silicon makes it the perfect ...

The experimental setup involved studying half of a fused quartz crucible manufactured from two types ... silicon ingots,” published in Journal of Crystal Growth. The team came from three ...

A slice of quartz ground to a prescribed thickness that vibrates at a steady frequency when stimulated by electricity. The tiny crystal, about 1/20th by 1/5th of an inch, creates the computer's ...