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If you're talking "solderless breadboard", this has

a lot of "stray C" and some unknown contact

resistance per connection, which can bleed or

damp the crystal loop. The circulating AC current

loop quality is key - loss and contamination,

"injection unlocking (ground beat-back from

some switching activity)" and so on.

Clock-in-a-can is meant to solve a lot of that.