Fascinating Facts about Quartz Crystals
DID YOU KNOW?
That a micro-thin quartz slice is used to keep time
inside a quartz watch?
That this crystal slice inside a quartz watch vibrates
more than 30,000 times each second and that these
vibrations make the quartz watch keep such good time?
That the piezoelectric effect of crystals is also
used in gas igniters. When a crystal is "squeezed",
it produces an electric charge (a spark) which lights
gas?
That carrying an all natural quartz crystal (not shaped
or polished by man) could give you balance and inner
peace?
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WHAT IS PIEZOELECTRICITY?
In the year 1880, the two brothers Pierre and Jacques
Curie discovered Piezoelectricity. They found out
that pressure on a quartz crystal causes positive
and negative charges to be produced across the crystal.
It was found, that placing an alternating electrical
charge on a piezoelectric crystal could cause the
crystal to vibrate. This now is the basis of the use
of quartz as oscillator plates in the control of radio
waves, or to keep time.
CRYSTAL HEALING
The laying of stones on someone's body is an ancient
form. It is believed, that as light reflects off the
crystal and other gems and stones, the electromagnetic
field of their body, their aura, absorbs energy.
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