Ok Benny,
We are living in an age where ceramics xtals are turning motion into electricity and vice versa and you are clearly saying that a binder seperates the new generation of water stones? And of course we know that many water stone have no binder at all.
We can keep this discussion without much of the jargon because it is not needed unless we know or want to know the answer to the specific question. Not that I don't like that, I do but not here and now. You cited WIKI sources earlier, do you think Shapton is going to post proprietary information to make what cost them 100s of millions of yuen?
I think the simple question remains, are all of the xtals following some basic hexagonal silicate theme only differing in how assembled and sorted, meaning they are all the same or are they more advanced on the nano level and clearly have developed different morphs of xtals with different physical properties.
Mike