In lots of components of geophysics, geology, geochemistry, and mining, there's massive curiosity in laboratory info at the actual homes of varied kinds of rocks. until eventually lately, how ever, in simple terms the mechanical houses of rocks have been studied intimately. the previous couple of years have obvious a comparatively great amount of research of homes of rock samples and a necessity to prepare the result of those reports has arisen. In"Electrical homes of Rocks,"* E. 1. Parkhomenko reviewed and cataloged reviews of electric resistivity and the dielectric consistent in rocks. within the current paintings she covers different electric phenomena that are saw to take place in rocks and minerals and reports the re sults of her personal researches, in addition to that of others, formerly released. Theoretical and experimental facts at the piezoelectric prop erties of minerals and rocks got on the grounds that 1953 via E. 1. Parkho menko and myself because the results of laboratory investigations on quartz-bearing rocks (granite, gneiss, quartz veins, and so forth. ) include the majority of the monograph (Chapters1-4). Itwas no longer formerly con sidered polycrystalline mass akin to a rock may perhaps show piezoelectric houses - it used to be meant attribute merely of unmarried crystals.
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