Giant amethyst geodes formed within a steady groundwater flow and at unexpectedly low crystallization temperatures, new study ...

These are made from amorphous silicon, which is why they look so different from the other two. Extracting silicon from quartz requires an insanely hot furnace and a long pole. Image via How It’s ...

Hurricane Helene swept across the Southeast, causing major flooding and destruction throughout North Carolina. Here is ongoing coverage from The News & Observer and The Charlotte Observer about ...

The windows were made of fused quartz, three by eight inches ... which if loosened in a fraction of a second would make amorphous tissue of our bodies, breathing our own homemade atmosphere ...

Despite clearly not being a metal — and not a glass either; glasses are amorphous solids, while ceramics are crystalline — AlON and the other transparent ceramics that have been developed ...

UV Grade Fused Silica is synthetic amorphous silicon dioxide of extremely high purity ... Transmission and homogeneity exceed those of crystalline quartz without the problems of orientation and ...

Quartz / Fused Silica - Fused silica is a compound of silicon and oxygen. Quartz and high-purity amorphous-fused silica afford very low expansion, remarkable thermal shock resistance, low thermal ...

Her signature move is to make cakes that look like rocks—not pretty crystals like amaranth or rose quartz, but rocks that lean more ... and a monstera leaf from her own plant at home. The result? An ...

pv magazine: In “Solar Cells and Modules,” which was recently published by Springer, you dedicate a long chapter to amorphous silicon solar cells, which is very much still a niche technology ...