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The popularity of Minecraft mods has been credited for helping Minecraft become one of the best-selling video games of all time. The first Minecraft mods worked by decompiling and modifying the Java source code of the game. The original version of the game, now called Minecraft: Java Edition, is still modded this way, but with more advanced tools.
[2] [3] [4] The irradiation causes the iron Fe 3+ ions that replace Si in the lattice to lose an electron and form a [FeO 4] 0 color center. [5] Amethyst is a three-dimensional network of tetrahedra where the silicon atoms are in the center and are surrounded by four oxygen atoms located at the vertices of a tetrahedron. This structure is quite ...
Euhedral pyrite crystals A subhedral sample showing sharp to anhedral pyrargyrite crystals.. Euhedral and anhedral are terms used to describe opposite properties in the formation of crystals.
On 20 April 1949, during the Chinese Civil War between the nationalist Kuomintang-led Republic of China and the Chinese Communist Party, the Royal Navy sloop HMS Amethyst, commanded by Lieutenant Commander Bernard Skinner, [12] was cruising on the river Yangtze from Shanghai to Nanjing, [Note 1] to replace HMS Consort, which had been posted as guard ship for the British Embassy there.
Amethyst is a given name derived from a semi-precious violet variety of quartz that is also used to make jewelry. Ancient Greeks believed the stone prevented intoxication . An amethyst is also the birthstone for people born in February.
[4] Electronmicroscopic image of spores of. The stem is the same colour as the cap, and has whitish fibrils at the base, which become mealy at the top. [3] It is fibrous, hollow, fairly tough when rolled in the fingers, with dimensions of 0.6 to 7 cm (1 ⁄ 4 to 2 + 3 ⁄ 4 in) long by 0.1 to 0.7 cm (1 ⁄ 16 to 1 ⁄ 4 in) thick. [3]
The Greek name amethystos alludes to the popular belief that amethyst prevented intoxication; as such, drinking vessels were made of amethyst for festivities, and carousers wore amulets made of it to counteract the action of wine. [6] The amethyst is a brilliant transparent stone of a purple color and varies in shade from violet purple to rose.
An amethyst stone from South Africa. Amethyste or Amethystos (Ancient Greek: Ἀμέθυστη, romanized: Améthustē, lit. 'non-drunk') is supposedly a nymph in Greek mythology who was turned into a precious stone by the goddess Diana/Artemis in order to avoid a worse fate at the hands of the god Dionysus, thus explaining the origin of the semi-precious stone amethyst.