[OR_Archaeology] white quartz fragments

[Leland Gilsen]

If anyone has an easy source for broken fragments of quartz that display triboluminescence when rubbed against each other... I would like to have about 1/4 pound for making rattles that glow blue when shaken in the dark. The ones I have seen years that work are white, not clear, and irregular and about 1/2 inch in size scattered around on the ground.  Cannot remember where they were.


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

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Triboluminescence - Wikipedia<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triboluminescence>
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Triboluminescence is an optical phenomenon in which light is generated through the breaking of chemical bonds in a material when it is pulled apart, ripped, scratched ...




Dr. Leland Gilsen
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