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 “106291/Quartz/Synthetic / (Bell Labs, New York City).”
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: 1988.0329.41
label: catalog number
content: 1988.0329.41
label: accession number
content: 1988.0329
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Mineral Sample
label: Object Name
content: Quartz
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 20.3 cm x 7 cm; 8 in x 2 3/4 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 in x 8 1/8 in x 2 3/4 in; 7.62 cm x 20.6375 cm x 6.985 cm