• form of quartz, α-quartz, undergoes a reversible change in crystal structure at 573 °C to form β-quartz. This phenomenon is called an inversion, and for...
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    Quartz exists in several phases. At 573 °C at 1 atmosphere (and at higher temperatures and higher pressures) the α-quartz undergoes quartz inversion,...
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  • Look up Inversion or inversion in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Inversion or inversions may refer to: Inversion (artwork), a 2005 temporary sculpture...
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  • indicator linked to a kiln via a thermocoupler. Pyrometric cones (W) Quartz Quartz inversion Recipe The list of raw materials used to formulate a clay body...
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    leads to shakeout difficulties and possibly hot tears (probably due to quartz inversion[citation needed]) in the casting.: 70  The mixed sodium silicate and...
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  • bonds to silica increasing strength, imparting veining resistance. Quartz inversion, 573C silica phase change leading to cracking in ceramics "AFS Metalcasting...
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    of an S2 axis, which is just an inversion. Any orientation will do, so long as it passes through the center of inversion. Also note that higher symmetries...
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  • montmorillonite clay bodies due to the volume expansion of cristobalite during its inversion upon cooling. "The release of free silica, takes place in montmorillonite...
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    CMOS (section Inversion)
    Bardeen and Brattain patented an insulated-gate transistor (IGFET) with an inversion layer. Bardeen's concept forms the basis of CMOS technology today. The...
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    the mechanical and electrical states in crystalline materials with no inversion symmetry. The piezoelectric effect is a reversible process: materials...
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    that have trigonal symmetry but belong to the hexagonal lattice (such as α-quartz). The hexagonal crystal family consists of the 12 point groups such that...
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    minerals. Pyrite is usually found associated with other sulfides or oxides in quartz veins, sedimentary rock, and metamorphic rock, as well as in coal beds and...
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    a rotation axis Inversion, which changes the sign of the coordinate of each point with respect to a center of symmetry or inversion point Improper rotation...
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    titled "Light Amplifiers Employing Collisions to Produce Population Inversions" (subsequently amended as a continuation in part and finally issued as...
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    get some stimulated emission, it is necessary to create a population inversion of the atoms. This is done in a way that is very similar to the Stern–Gerlach...
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  • Paleostress inversion refers to the determination of paleostress history from evidence found in rocks, based on the principle that past tectonic stress...
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    even-order nonlinear optical phenomena, is not allowed in media with inversion symmetry (in the leading electric dipole contribution). However, effects...
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  • tax inversion. A "naked tax inversion" is where the corporate had little prior business activities in the new location. The first tax inversion was the...
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  • fermentation. The cell-free extract was produced by combining dry yeast cells, quartz and diatomaceous earth and then pulverizing the yeast cells with a mortar...
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    impact feature. Evidence for the crater's impact origin includes shocked quartz, a gravity anomaly, and tektites in surrounding areas. The date of the impact...
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    interfacial angles (also known as the first law of crystallography) in quartz crystals in 1669.: 4  This was later generalized and established experimentally...
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  • affluent Americans away from suburbs to cities, also known as The Great Inversion. The 2010s was marked by the construction of many new luxury condominium...
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    granites and rhyolites, and extremely Fe-rich olivine can exist stably with quartz and tridymite. In contrast, Mg-rich olivine does not occur stably with silica...
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  • 1 inversion (last one was 2012)  Denmark 1 inversion (last one was 2009)  Jersey 1 inversion (last one was 2009)  British Virgin Islands 1 inversion (last...
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    to ferroelectric materials, and are always in materials which have no inversion symmetry so would also display piezoelectricity. Electrets, like magnets...
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    (17 December 2013). "By reading this article, you're mining bitcoins". Quartz. Archived from the original on 17 December 2013. Retrieved 17 December 2013...
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    sedimentary rocks of the Jacobsville Sandstone. The fault is part of the inversion of the Midcontinent Rift where a region that had previously undergone...
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    identity element, reflections, rotations and improper rotations, including inversion points. The translations form a normal abelian subgroup of rank 3, called...
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    ferricrete, and they may be found in elevated positions as result of relief inversion. Cliff Ollier has criticized the usefulness of the concept given that...
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    primera red privada de cargadores para vehículos eléctricos en Uruguay tras inversión de US$ 5 millones". 15 March 2024. "En los próximos 12 meses. eOne instalará...
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