• EpeeGnome@lemmy.fmhy.net
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    1 year ago

    A crystal’s resonant frequency is determined by its size and shape as well as it’s material. The quartz crystals used in watches and other precision crystal oscillators are machined very exactly. Even then it’s not that they can’t vibrate at other frequencies, they’re just not good at it.