Join us on an exhilarating journey as we embark on a crystal hunting adventure in the picturesque mountains of Switzerland.

DILLON, Mont. — Molten granite formed the Pioneer Mountain Range in southwest Montana about 72-million years ago. As the granite cooled, water carried quartz and other minerals through the rocks and ...

The quartz crystal microbalance (QCM) is a precise mass sensor that exploits the piezoelectric effect in quartz crystals to detect minute mass variations on its surface. At its core, the QCM operates ...

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The growth of crystals inside liquid metal is not a new idea. However, because people could not see inside the liquid metal, ...

Researchers have successfully grown platinum crystals in liquid metal, using a powerful X-ray technique giving rare insight into how these delicate crystals form and grow.