[time-nuts] What interrupts aging?

[Richard (Rick) Karlquist]

On 2/5/2017 4:19 PM, Peter Reilley wrote:
> I am curious: is the quartz in a high quality quartz crystal perfect?
> That is; is the
>
> crystalline lattice perfect, without flaws or impurities?   I assume
> that the quartz is
>
> grown in a furnace, can we grow perfect quartz crystals?
>
> Pete.
>

Even a perfect crystal has thermal stress as the temperature changes.

Rick