The arrangement of silicon and oxygen in quartz is very regular and rigid.

硅和氧在石英中的排列是非常严格且有规律的。

Here's why: Quartz crystals form within a cooling blob of molten granite rock, or magma, deep under Earth's surface.

石英形成于地球表面深处，一团冷却的熔融花岗岩岩石或岩浆中。

He's a surveyor and spends many days each year traversing the mountain slopes on the hunt for clear and smokey quartz crystals.

他是一名测量员，每年花很多天的时间穿越山坡寻找透明和烟灰色的石英。

But if a quartz crystal is squeezed along a certain direction, the atoms shift.

但如果沿特定方向挤压石英，原子发生位移。

I'm burning sage and rubbing quartz crystals.

我在焚烧鼠尾草并揉擦石英。

They're Herkimer diamonds which are quartz crystals, and… diamond-like but certainly not a diamond.

它们是赫基默钻石，是石英，并且… … 似于钻石，但肯定不是钻石。

It flickers, revealing bent steel railings and lumps of crystalline quartz.

它闪烁着，揭示出弯曲的钢制栏杆和块状的石英。

When quartz crystals are hooked up to special electric circuits, they vibrate 32,768 times every second.

当石英连接到特殊电路时，它们每动 32,768 次。

Cesium atoms oscillate at microwave frequencies, and are usually paired with a vibrating quartz crystal to keep time.

铯原子在微波频率下荡，通常与动的石英配对以计时。

When some early Homo sapiens let their tools get toasty, they reset the electron content of the quartz crystals.

当一些早期智人的工具变得很热时，他们重置了石英中的电子含量。

Scott finishes up by saying quartz crystal will naturally have a variable resonant frequency depending on its size though.

斯科特最后说，石英的共频率根据其大小自然发生变化。

When Pierre was twenty-one, he and his brother had discovered that quartz crystals could hold an electrical charge.

当 Pierre 21 岁时，他和他的兄弟发现石英可以保持电荷。

And again, this crystal is placed in a feedback loop of its own to produce a stable resonant frequency.

而且，这个石英被放置在其自身的反馈回路中，以产生稳定的谐频率。

A pendulum makes one beat per second, a quartz crystal and a $5 digital watch beats 32,768 times per second, atomic clocks wobble billions of times per second.

钟摆每跳动一次，石英和 5 美元的数字手表每跳动 32768 次，原子钟每摆动数十亿次。

And if we look at crystalline structure, like that in this crystalline quartz, it's going to be the same atoms you can see.

如果我们观察结构, 就像这种石英中的结构一样, 它将是您能看到的相同的原子。

In the middle is a frequency and phase comparator that outputs a signal equal to the difference between the crystal and the voltage-controlled oscillator.

中间是一个频率和相位比较器，它输出一个等于石英和电压控制荡器之间差值的信号。

Inside this metal cylinder is a quartz crystal tuning fork with wires printed onto the side which travel along the legs to the outside of the metal canister.

在这个金属圆筒内有一个石英音叉，侧面印有导线，这些导线沿着音叉腿延伸到金属罐的外部。

Inside, he was greeted by a sight straight out of a fairytale - quartz crystals sparkled like stars, and marble formations were like the work of divine sculptors.

在里面，迎接他的是童话般的景象——石英像星星一样闪闪发光，大理石结构就像神圣雕塑家的作品。

Now that we've covered the gear train, Let's dive into the quartz crystal oscillator and see what makes this clock nearly identical to the digital clock in your computer.

现在我们已经讲过了齿轮传动系统，让我们来看看石英荡器， 看看是什么让它几乎与你电脑里的数字钟一样。

Well, much of the world's sand is made out of the same stuff — tiny crystals of the mineral quartz, which is made out of silicon and oxygen, the two most common elements in Earth's crust.

嗯，世界上大部分的沙子都是由同样的东西制成的——矿物石英的微小，石英是由硅和氧这两种地壳中最常见的元素组成的。