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Control of Electrical Twinning in Quartz

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IN the Dauphine twins of quartz, the polarity of the electric axes is reversed on either side of a twin boundary. Structurally the change is slight. It has been known for some time that electrical twinning could be induced either by heating1 or by pressure2; but up to the present its elimination has not, so far as we are aware, been reported.

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WOOSTER, W., WOOSTER, N. Control of Electrical Twinning in Quartz. Nature 157, 405–406 (1946). https://doi.org/10.1038/157405c0

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