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Are water crystals (ice) piezoelectric?

Has anyone conducted experiments to determine if common ice crystals are piezoelectric, that is they convert mechanical movement into voltage and cause the crystal structure to alter when a voltage is applied?

Update:

The voltage would be proportionate to the force applied, larger the force higher the potential difference, could light be emitted from the ice if neon gas or the like was frozen into the crystal lattice and a projectile fired into the ice.

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
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    i believe they r but to any practical or whats considered a measurable amount of x charge is the real question.something i wanted to know more about myself.charge has a big effect on how they grow and the issue should apply during growth and/or destruction but its own environment is too incoherent. too chaotic to show or spread and transmit in a normally obvious way.not the way a "normal scientist"would want it to work.best to form and test in space,zero g but remember i said that.theres more than i am willing to say about it other than charge vs magnetic alignment,shape,and sound waves.one of the best questions that shouldve been asked by many more.

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