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Second harmonic generation SHG may be used as an experimental technique in structural crystallography. By applying a bond polarizability model to the nonlinear optical coefficients of quartz, the rotation of the SiO4 tetrahedron with temperature is `observed'. Additionally, the oxygen positional parameter x in β quartz is obtained in excellent agreement with previously published X-ray results.