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"But it's almost as if the crystals evade our attempts to investigate their properties on a quantum level. They flee from our efforts to analyze them with neutron activation, even plasma mass spectrometry."
―Galen Walton Erso[1]

When Galen Erso studied kyber crystals, they resisted his efforts to analyze them with neutron activation.[1]

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