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L. A. Thomas
Researcher at General Electric
Publications - 9
Citations - 112
L. A. Thomas is an academic researcher from General Electric. The author has contributed to research in topics: Quartz & Piezoelectricity. The author has an hindex of 5, co-authored 9 publications receiving 104 citations.
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Piezoelectric Materials, A Review of Progress
TL;DR: A review of the properties of the more important piezoelectric materials is given in this article, where the authors discuss the basic principles of the phenomena of piezelectricity and elasticity from the standpoint of crystal physics.
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Influence of Impurities on the Growth of Quartz Crystals from Flint and Quartzite
TL;DR: The most successful methods for growing large quartz crystals have employed a hydrothermal technique in which melting-quality quartz is used as the source material for maintaining the supersaturation of the liquid with respect to silica in the vicinity of the growing crystals as discussed by the authors.
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The hydrothermal synthesis of quartz
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Growth of large quartz crystals.
TL;DR: Alternative methods employing a temperature gradient, such as Spezia4 used in his pioneer experiments are re-examined, finding them to be unsatisfactory.
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Response of Synthetic Quartz to X-Ray Irradiation
C. S. Brown,L. A. Thomas +1 more
TL;DR: Frondel et al. as discussed by the authors reported that natural quartz darkens when exposed to irradiation by X-rays, although the degree of darkening varies considerably from specimen to specimen.