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IN a previous communication in Nature1 some experiments in connexion with the controlled alteration in the twin boundaries of electrically twinned quartz have been described. The following theory satisfactorily accounts for the production of substantially single-crystalline specimens by the application of a torque at temperatures somewhat lower than the ?-? transition point (573° C.).
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Wooster, W. A., and Wooster, Nora, Nature, 157, 405 (1946).
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WOOSTER, W. A Theory of the Control of Twinning in Quartz. Nature 159, 94–95 (1947). https://doi.org/10.1038/159094a0
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