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

硅和氧在石英晶体中的排列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.

石英晶体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晶体。

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

但如果沿某个方向挤石英晶体，原子就会移动。

Piezoelectric quartz crystals in the sonar's transmitter vibrated when they were subjected to alternating voltage.

声纳发射器中的石英晶体在受到交时会振动。

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

它基默钻石，石英晶体，并且… … 类似于钻石，但肯定不钻石。

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

铯原子以微波频率振荡，通常振动的石英晶体配对以计时。

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

当一些早期智人让他的工具变热时，他会重置石英晶体的子含量。

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晶体可以保持荷。

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.

钟摆每秒跳动一次，石英晶体和 5 美元的数字手表每秒跳动 32768 次，原子钟每秒摆动数十亿次。

Using this phase-locked loop we have an  incredibly fast frequency generator producing a signal that is exactly 150 times that of a  reliably manufactured and temperature-stable quartz crystal.

利用这个锁相环，我得到了一个速度极快的频率发生器，它产生的信号恰好可靠制造且温度稳定的石英晶体的 150 倍。

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.

这个金属圆柱体内部一个石英晶体音叉，侧面印有线，沿着支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，迎接他的童话般的景象——石英晶体像星星一样闪闪发光，大理石结构就像神圣雕塑家的作品。

Oh, you just walked into the Amazon rainforest, you found a big ass slab of rose quartz crystal and you said, " Hmm, let me take this back" ?

哦，你刚刚走进亚马逊雨林，你发现了一块大屁股的玫瑰石英晶体，你说，“嗯，让我把这个拿回来” ？

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.

现在我已经介绍了齿轮系，让我深入研究石英晶体振荡器， 看看什么让这个时钟计算机中的数字时钟几乎完全相同。

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由同样的东西制成的——矿物石英的微小晶体，石英由硅和氧这两种地壳中最常见的元素组成的。

Let's move on and see how smartphones and  computers generate a clock between 1 to 5 gigahertz which is 30 to 150 thousand times  faster than a single oscillation of this quartz crystal tuning fork.

让我继续看看智能手机和计算机如何产生 1 到 5 千兆之间的时钟，这个时钟比这个石英晶体音叉的单次振荡快 3 万到 15 万倍。