Piezoelectricity
Piezoelectricity was an electric charge that accumulated in certain materials.

In 2256, there was reportedly an accident at Tellun in which a dilithium pocket went piezoelectric and ripped apart the bottom of the mine. Fifty miners were said to have been vaporized. ()

A piezoelectric effect was also responsible for the near-destruction of Drema IV. ()

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