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For years a related mineral took the blame for bronze disease, the creeping green corrosion that eats ancient bronzes. Closer analysis pinned much of it on clinoatacamite, the mineral quietly turning museum bronzes to powder.
Pressing a quartz crystal makes it give off a precise electric beat, which is why it keeps time in nearly every watch and once tuned the radios of World War II, when good crystals were a strategic resource.
