Talk:Quartz inversion

I just thought I'd start the talk page here. Patrick (talk) 20:45, 3 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Wow, OK, this page has a ton of very technical crystallography jargon. That's all fine, but I think some more explicit links to the definitions of all the different terms might be helpful. For example, crystallographic 'inversion' might be more clearly defined. More exactly, what happens to the atomic structure as a result of the inversion? Since there's a change in density when going from the alpha to the beta version, what is the change in structure?

This particular page is the redirected target of the "Alpha-Quartz" keyword. But, the page is actually talking about the inversion phenomenon. Perhaps it might be better to redirect "Alpha-Quartz" to the "Quartz" page rather than this page. I just checked and "Beta-Quartz" behaves the same way. Perhaps it also should be re-directed to the basic "Quartz" page too.

And, as for the old "Quartz" page, perhaps there should be a cross link from there over to here. I refer to the "Crystal Habit and Structure" section on that page.

Finally, I'm not sure how to recruit a ceramics or crystallography expert from within Wikipedia. But, please consider the request for help being made by me here.

Patrick (talk) 21:02, 3 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]