But if a silicon crystal chip in a computer can store gigabytes of memory, then why shouldn't a piece of raw quartz crystal contain secrets of its own? But what might that information be?

Attenuated Total Reflectance Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy Attenuated Total Reflectance Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (ATR-FTIR) was done with a Bruker Vertex 70 system by drop ...