Hi Quartz ball yes. It’s a fused quartz (as opposed to crystalline quartz) ball ….. Fused quartz is a lot easier to work with. In order to be piezoelectric, it must be crystalline. The piezo properties are what lets you make a resonator out of it.
Bob > On Apr 22, 2018, at 6:28 PM, Brooke Clarke <bro...@pacific.net> wrote: > > Hi: > > I found a perfect quartz ball. It took Stanford many decades to make it. > https://einstein.stanford.edu/TECH/technology1.html > > -- > Have Fun, > > Brooke Clarke > http://www.PRC68.com > http://www.end2partygovernment.com/2012Issues.html > > -------- Original Message -------- >> Hi: >> >> Isotopes of an element differ in the number of neutrons. The chemical >> reactions of an element are governed by the electrons, which are the same >> for all isotopes, so chemical means can not be used to separate the isotopes. >> There are a number of ways of making the separation, for Uranium see: >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinton_Engineer_Works#Facilities >> >> It's not clear to me how the isotopes of water are accounted for in it's >> physical properties. Have these been refined and defined for each isotope? >> This may be important since the properties of water show up a lot as the >> basis for other definitions. >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isotopes_of_hydrogen >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isotopes_of_oxygen >> >> PS One of the names of the company I worked for was FEI Microwave. There was >> a rumor that the funder of that company had a bunch of very special quartz >> in the vault and that crystals cut from that material had better phase noise >> than off the shelf crystals hence he had an advantage over other vendors. >> http://prc68.com/I/Aertech.shtml#Names >> > > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com > To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
