• emergencyfood@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    if you firmly believe that crystals vibrate on higher frequencies, but can’t describe what frequency amethyst vibrates at in hertz

    I’m not a physicist, but I think crystals can vibrate at a fixed frequency? Isn’t that how quartz watches work?

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      1 year ago

      A crystal’s resonant frequency is determined by its size and shape as well as it’s material. The quartz crystals used in watches and other precision crystal oscillators are machined very exactly. Even then it’s not that they can’t vibrate at other frequencies, they’re just not good at it.