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Piezoelectricity Concept

Demonstrations in Piezoelectricity

Large milky-white quartz crystal chunk and smaller tan stone used as a striker

Quartz Sparks

Scraping quartz with a striker in a darkened room produces visible orange flashes from triboluminescence (light emitted when crystals fracture). While cataloged under piezoelectricity, the dominant effect is triboluminescence -- …

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