Quartz is extensively used as a piezoelectric material, it contains

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Quartz is a well known piezoelectric material.
Piezoelectric materials are the materials which have the ability of generating electric charge by applying mechanical stress.

This property of quartz has made it possible to develop extremely accurate clocks, modern radio and TV broadcasting.

This quartz is one of the crystalline forms of Silica i.e silicon dioxide consisting of $S i a n d O$ atoms.

Structure of quartz

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