Hi,
I don't remember ever seeing any references to this, and am also not
quite sure where to start looking -- but the BB readership tends to
dredge up this sort of thing:
Has anybody published (or just done) estimates of the magnitude of the
forces that hold a crystal together? E.g. how hard would I need to poke
it with a pointed stick to make a hole in it? (Or conversely, how
pointed would the stick need to be.)
(I thought Alex McPherson's AFM papers might point me there, but they
only say what nominal forces they used, not what forces demolished the
crystals.)
Cheers
phx
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