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The 50’s was the period of a qualitatively new stage in studying quartz crystals. Hydrothermal techniques for growing large single crystals of quartz were developed, and very soon practically all of the natural and previously unknown modifications of quartz crystals were synthesized. The growth and extensive application of large quartz crystals was a stimulus to studying the structure of this mineral; at the same time, the growth of crystals under defined physical chemical conditions offered an opportunity to study the genesis of imperfections. This was also the time when such highly informative methods of studying the structure of crystals as radio-frequency, optical and Mössbauser spectroscopy, high-resolution electron microscopy, etc. were developed and widely used.
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Tsinober, L.I., Khadzhi, V.E., Tsyganov, E.M., Samoilovich, M.I., Shaposhnikov, A.A. (1986). Growth and Structure of Synthetic Amethyst Crystals. In: Givargizov, E.I. (eds) Growth of Crystals. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-7119-3_31
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