Piezoelectricity
Some minerals such as quartz can produce electricity simply by squeezing or bending them - these are called piezoelectric crystals. Here is a simple and cheap demonstration you can do.
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Although essentially a very simple device the Gieger Counter is an exquisitely sensitive detector of ionising radiation. It can detect a single particle. Here we demonstrate its use in detecting radiation from minerals and describe in simple terms ho....
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A Breathtaking Journey into the Innermost Structure of our Universe. Runner up: Best use of Animation and Best Short Documentary for the 2002 International Festival of Cinema and Technology.
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This short documentary explains why the Large Hadron Collider was built and what scientists are using the collider to look for.
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Dr Tara Shears explains why scientists are convinced that Dark Matter exists and how a new experiment called the Large Hadron Collider might finally tell us exactly what this mysterious missing mass is made of.
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