During the talk he spilled the beans on the quartz crystal hanging off the front side of every PCB. Continue reading “DEF CON 27: The Badge Talk; Or That One Time Joe Grand Sourced 30,000 ...

A slice of quartz ground to a prescribed thickness that vibrates at a steady frequency when stimulated by electricity. The tiny crystal, about 1/20th by 1/5th of an inch, creates the computer's ...

The magic of crystal formation had already been done by natural processes; all that was needed was a little slicing and dicing. As it turns out, though, quartz is so immensely useful for a ...

Personalized jewelry is a thoughtful gift that, if chosen well, will be cherished for decades. But with so many jewelry brands offering the same bland birthstone pendants and initial necklaces ...

Large crystals found in geodes and other rocks are relatively rare. Pink ChalcedonyA pink chalcedony shows off its beauty. Chalcedonies include many types of cryptocrystalline quartz gems and ...

Clear quartz, known as the 'master healer,' is reputed for amplifying energy, balancing chakras, and aiding emotional and spiritual healing. It enhances planetary energies in astrology ...

Spruce Pine, North Carolina, is one of the few places in the world for mining high-purity quartz, a key component needed for making microchips, solar panels and fiber-optic cables. But destruction ...

The highest-quality Spruce Pine quartz has an open crystal structure that, after rounds of treatment to dissolve impurities, ...

Crystal Palace can draw an established link back to the Crystal Palace football team established in 1861, which played its first match in March 1862. The connection makes Palace the oldest league club ...

The crystal quartz is a powerful stone, often referred to as the "master healer" in the language of crystals. Clear quartz is ...

However, you can find sources of every resource on Planet Humble that you can on the base planet, and that includes rare quartz types like solar, quasar, and magnetar. You won't find these ...