![]() ![]() Well, this makes quartz perfect for use in the accurate mechanics used in things like a watch!īusting the Fantasy Bubble: Now, I know we’d all like to imagine a mini crystal like this one below lives inside our quartz watch…īut instead, they actually are high quality, high-purity quartz crystals laser-trimmed in a lab into the shape of a tuning fork & vibrate at a very specific frequency. Quartz is unique its flexible yet resistant to temperature-induced expansion & contraction, unlike other materials. ( Since I fear losing too many of you with this physics-stuffs, I’ll just link to examples if you care to dig deeper into that.) Today, piezoelectricity is commonly used in our modern technology in so many ways. So this piezoelectric thing was a HUGE discovery for the Pierre Bro’s & gave quartz crystal a whole new importance…while validating what the metaphysical community had inherently known since ancient times, but didn’t have the relatively new science to back it up! BTW, that’s the whole premise of my crystal courses…science backing up & giving confidence to our crystal healing & therapy practices. or even the environment that’s it’s in at the time.See, a particular quartz crystal’s resonant frequency depends on many variables such as: “What frequency is quartz crystal? I heard it was ‘ High Frequency’.”įrom a scientific point of view, that’s the wrong way to look at it. The next question I often get from my students is: ![]() Because of this, it vibrates at a very specific frequency making it ideal for use in watches & other technologies. Quartz is able to conduct an electrical charge b/c of its precise crystalline nature. BY JOE THOMISSEN (OWN WORK), VIA WIKIMEDIA COMMONS How does Quartz do this shizzle? An electric charge actually builds up in the quartz as a reaction to the stress.īALL LIGHTNING. It means that quartz produces a voltage when pressured in some way. And it’s 1 super-geeky reason why quartz is so scientifically magical! So, what I’ve just described & what the Pierre bro’s discovered is known as: piezoelectricity. Or vice versa: an electric current into a mechanical force. In this case we’re talking about transducing mechanical energy into electrical energy. But, some crystals can serve as transducers.Ī transducer is capable of transforming one form of energy into another…rather than generating it Crystals cannot create or generate energy, despite that popular name given to quartz crystals of a certain rare shape & size: “Generators”. Wait! A rock crystal was making electricity here? Then they found that squeezing it resulted in the same. Together they found that by wiring a quartz crystal to a recording meter & striking it, they could produce an electric signal. ![]() So a wee bit ago ( in the year 1880) in a Paris lab, physicist brothers Jacques & Pierre Curie (husband to Marie) made a new discovery regarding quartz crystals. OK, really quick we’re going to dip into some physics here. It makes up some of our very favorite crystals to work with: Is the power of crystals & quartz energy a scam?īy throwing some science at it, of course! ![]()
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