quartz crystal


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a thin plate or small rod of quartz cut along certain lines and ground so that it can produce an electric signal at a constant frequency

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Fill a muslin bag with Crystal Moon Goddess Bath Salts and soak your body in the potent blend of Dead Sea salt and quartz crystals scented with jasmine, frankincense, and neroli.
In the piezoelectric 12-DOF force/acceleration sensor, two piezoelectric quartz crystal chip group units were uniformly distributed in concentric circles.
A sphere made from a quartz crystal was used as a representative of natural quartz grains in rocks.
(2003) Quartz crystal biosensor for real-time monitoring of molecular recognition between protein and small molecular medicinal agents.
And in 1868 on the Tiefengletscher--about 10 km northeast of the Grimsel Pass and about the same distance southwest of Goscheneralp--another gigantic quartz crystal cleft was opened (for good summary accounts of it see Wilson, 1984b, and Bancroft, 1984).
Since World War II, quartz crystal resonators have been the standard in the frequency control arena because of their piezoelectric and mechanical properties.
The quartz crystal microbalance (QCM) is a very sensitive instrument for measuring mass, capable of measuring nanogram quantities of substances deposited on specially prepared quartz crystals, which are typically disk-shaped.
Actually it's a quartz crystal oscillator that breaking seconds down into a few million parts.
The E4 system is based on Q-Sense's proprietary QCM-D (Quartz Crystal Microbalance with Dissipation monitoring) technology.