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muhammad mushtaq
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How Electricity Can Be Generated from Quartz?

07/06/2011 5:21 AM

How electricity can be generated from quartz?
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07/06/2011 7:05 AM

Zero. Quartz is an insulator and non-magnetic.

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07/06/2011 7:52 AM

There is a phenomenon called piezo-electricity. Please read more here.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piezoelectricity

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07/06/2011 10:58 AM

Squeeze it...really friggin' hard!
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Re: How Electricity Can Be Generated from Quartz?

07/06/2011 11:21 PM

quite true... but one must also have a circuit connected across the crystal, that can take advantage of the displaced electrons.

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Re: How Electricity Can Be Generated from Quartz?

07/06/2011 11:49 PM

You can go into most electronic supply stores and purchase quartz crystals used for timing devices such as watches, etc. They are designed to resonate at a fixed frequency. If, instead of driving them at their resonant frequency with an electric circuit, you vibrate them at their resonant frequency, they will generate AC voltage at that frequency. It's called piezoelectricity and works with quartz and a number of other crystals and some non-crystalline materials.
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Re: How Electricity Can Be Generated from Quartz?

07/07/2011 5:59 AM

Quartz is piezoelectric, meaning that it develops a charge when mechanically stressed. However, the current available is very small, so there is very little power.
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07/07/2011 9:54 AM

IT CANT, HOWEVER THE DESTAINED APATURE CAN BE THE RESULT IS MAGNIFCATION AT 4.187 OVER THE DESTAINED AND CONCLUSIVE IN APATURE BUT THE PROBLEM YOUR FACED WITH IS DEFRACTION ONLY ENEPT IN DESIGN HOLDING YOU BACK. ED MARTINEZ M.L.D MOLECULAR LINEAR DYNAMICS..
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07/07/2011 12:45 PM

Oh shut up...idiot
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07/07/2011 1:50 PM

shut WHAT UP?I AM only addressing the question everybody seems to be in agreeance.
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