Practice question · Numerical answer
At approximately what temperature, in degrees Celsius, does quartz inversion occur?
Hints
- Between 500 and 600.
- About 573 degrees.
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573 (answers within ±20 count)
Why
About 573 °C. It is worth memorising as a number rather than a range, because it is the one point in a firing schedule where the rate matters more than anything else, in both directions.
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