Is the piezo effect only in crystalline substances?
Why does metal, when bent, generate heat?
Is there any change in the resistance of a metal when compressed? Or perhaps a spring (coil type)?
C.Martin
Piezo effect in metals?
Apr 08, 2004
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in article Pb3dc.4481$ C.Martin at Yes. The crystal requires a lack of a center of symmetry. It is the conversion of mechanical energy into heat. Probably.
Read the full replyin article Pb3dc.4481$ snipped-for-privacy@newssvr31.news.prodigy.com, C.Martin at snipped-for-privacy@hotmail.com wrote on 4/7/04 7:56 PM:
Yes. The crystal requires a lack of a center of symmetry.
It is the conversion of mechanical energy into heat.
Probably.
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