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Permanent Polarity of Quartz

Nature volume 33, page 391 (1886)Cite this article

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THE second note in NATURE (Feb. 4, p. 325) contains an account of an “important discovery” by Dr. O. Tumlirz, which is wrong in all essential particulars. The permanent polarity discovered by that gentleman is not diamagnetic, but paramagnetic. Nor is it correct that “Dr. Tumlirz appears to think that these facts negative Becquerel's theory of diamagnetism,” but on the contrary, he takes some trouble to show that his experiments are in complete agreement with that theory.

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SCHUSTER, A. Permanent Polarity of Quartz. Nature 33, 391 (1886). https://doi.org/10.1038/033391c0

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