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Gold nugget formation from earthquake-induced piezoelectricity in quartz

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"Gold nugget formation from earthquake-induced piezoelectricity in quartz" (2024) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-024-01514-1

Piezoelectric effects are how crystal radios work; AM Amplitude Modulated, shortwave, longwave

Quartz is dielectric.

Quartz clocks, quartz voltimeter

From https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40859142 :

Ancient lingams had Copper (Cu) and Gold (Au), and crystal FWIU.

From "Can you pump water without any electricity?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40619745 :

> - /? praveen mohan lingam: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=praveen+mohan+l...

FWIU rotating the lingams causes vibrations which scare birds away.

Piezoelectricity: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piezoelectricity

"New "X-Ray Vision" Technique Sees Inside Crystals" (2024) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40630832

"Observation of current whirlpools in graphene at room temperature" (2024) https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adj2167 .. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40360691 :

Electron–electron interactions in high-mobility conductors can give rise to transport signatures resembling those described by classical hydrodynamics. Using a nanoscale scanning magnetometer, we imaged a distinctive hydrodynamic transport pattern—stationary current vortices—in a monolayer graphene device at room temperature.

"Goldene: New 2D form of gold makes graphene look boring" (2024) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40079905

"Gold nanoparticles kill cancer – but not as thought" (2024) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40819854 :

Star-shaped gold nanoparticles up to 200nm kill at least some forms of cancer; https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40819854

Are there phononic excitations from earthquake-induced piezoelectric and pyroelectric effects?

Do (surface) plasmon polaritons SPhP affect the interactions between quartz and gold, given heat and vibration as from an earthquake?

"Extreme light confinement and control in low-symmetry phonon-polaritonic crystals" like quartz https://arxiv.org/html/2312.06805v2