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Response of Synthetic Quartz to X-Ray Irradiation

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IT is well known that natural quartz darkens when exposed to irradiation by X-rays, although the degree of darkening varies considerably from specimen to specimen. Moreover, within certain specimens, variations in the degree of darkening occur which are obviously related to crystallographic features. Frondel1 has studied these effects and also reported a change in the elastic constants of quartz resulting from X-ray irradiation.

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BROWN, C., THOMAS, L. Response of Synthetic Quartz to X-Ray Irradiation. Nature 169, 35–36 (1952). https://doi.org/10.1038/169035a0

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