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THE explanation of pyro-electric excitation in crystals, obviously extending to piezo-electric, as strain of a natural internal polarisation after the manner of Poisson and Kelvin, is one of the beautiful basic ideas in polarised electrics.
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LARMOR, J. Surface Layers of Crystals. Nature 137, 575–576 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/137575b0
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