Text: T. H. Moray's Swedish Stone In 1912 while Henry Moray was on mission with the Mormon Church in Uppsala, Sweden, his passion for crystal radios got him started in his research in the science of radiant energy. Every spare moment he searched for a mineral that could possibly work as a radio detector. Moray had found two specimens that worked well as radio detectors. The material found in the hillside could have very well been a type of argenti-zinciferrous-galena. This type of galena is highly sensitive to radio waves that allowed his receiver to function without a battery. I make this assumption because a galena type synthetic formula can be found in Moray¹s Electrotherapeutic Apparatus ­ U.S. Patent No. 2,460,707. This material using only the power transmitted from a local wireless station could drive a small horn speaker as reported by Moray. The other detector material was a white, powdery, stone-like material that he found in a railway car, located in Abisko, Sweden. From military records we know for certain that this white material was "fused silica." Silica is the chemical name for the simple oxide of silicon, silicon dioxide (SiO4). Mineralogists call this compound quartz. This is normally found in nature in its crystalline form. Finding this mineral in a fused state can only mean one thing. That, what Moray found was metamict quartz. A metamict is a crystalline mineral that loses its crystal structure due to radioactive destruction. For this to occur the quartz had to have contained trace amounts of uranium and/or thorium, which is why it was found in a "fused" state, in a more or less amorphous state, the so-called metamict state, owing to radiation damage from a-decay of these impurities. "Over the course of hundreds of millions of years, a-decay doses as high as 1019 decays per gram can occur, which may lead to the complete amorphization"(1) of the quartz structure. http://www.nuenergy.org/stone.htm

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