Here's why: Quartz crystals form within a cooling blob of molten granite rock, or magma, deep under Earth's surface.

石英晶体形成于地球表面深处，一团冷却的熔融花岗岩岩石或岩浆中。

He's a surveyor and spends many days each year traversing the mountain slopes on the hunt for clear and smokey quartz crystals.

他是一名测量员，每年花很多天的时间穿越山坡寻找透明和烟灰色的石英晶体。

But if a quartz crystal is squeezed along a certain direction, the atoms shift.

但如果沿某个方向挤压石英晶体，原子就会移动。

They're Herkimer diamonds which are quartz crystals, and… diamond-like but certainly not a diamond.

它们是赫基默钻石，是石英晶体，并且… … 类似于钻石，但肯定不是钻石。

Piezoelectric quartz crystals in the sonar's transmitter vibrated when they were subjected to alternating voltage.

声纳发射器中的压电石英晶体在受到交流电压时会振动。

Cesium atoms oscillate at microwave frequencies, and are usually paired with a vibrating quartz crystal to keep time.

铯原子以微波频率振荡，通常与振动的石英晶体配对以计时。

When some early Homo sapiens let their tools get toasty, they reset the electron content of the quartz crystals.

当一些早期智人让他们的工具变热时，他们会重置石英晶体的电子含量。

A pendulum makes one beat per second, a quartz crystal and a $5 digital watch beats 32,768 times per second, atomic clocks wobble billions of times per second.

钟摆每秒跳动一次，石英晶体和 5 美元的数字手表每秒跳动 32768 次，原子钟每秒摆动数十亿次。

Oh, you just walked into the Amazon rainforest, you found a big ass slab of rose quartz crystal and you said, " Hmm, let me take this back" ?

哦，你刚刚走进亚马逊雨林，你发现了一块大屁股的玫瑰石英晶体，你说，“嗯，让我把这个拿回来” ？