Quartz
notes: label: Description
content: At the end of World War II, scientists at the Bell Telephone Laboratories began working to grow artificial (synthetic) quartz crystals. A paper tag connected to this sample reads “120586/Quartz/Synthetic.”
label: Description
content: Ref: “Artificial Quartz is Produced Here,” New York Times (Sept. 19, 1947), p. 6.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1988.0329.42
label: catalog number
content: 1988.0329.42
label: accession number
content: 1988.0329
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Mineral Sample
label: Object Name
content: Quartz
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 14 cm x 5.1 cm x 3.9 cm; 5 1/2 in x 2 in x 1 9/16 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 1/2 in x 5 1/2 in x 2 in; 3.81 cm x 13.97 cm x 5.08 cm