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2. Sky Blue Sky - Wikipedia

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   Sky Blue Sky is the sixth studio album by the American rock band Wilco, released on May 15, 2007 by Nonesuch Records. Originally announced on January 17, 2007 at a show in Nashville , Tennessee , it was the band's first studio album with guitarist Nels Cline and multi-instrumentalist Pat Sansone .

3. Asterism (gemology) - Wikipedia

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   The star-effect or "asterism" is caused by the difference in refractive index between the host material and that of the dense inclusions of tiny fibers of rutile (also known as "silk"). Rutile causes the relative bright relief of a star in a host material such as corundum, which has a refractive index between 1.760 and 1.778, much lower than ...

4. Aventurine - Wikipedia

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   Aventurine is used for a number of applications, including landscape stone, building stone, aquaria, monuments, and jewelry. Aventurine is a form of quartzite , characterised by its translucency and the presence of platy mineral inclusions that give it a shimmering or glistening effect termed aventurescence .

5. Luminous gemstones - Wikipedia

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   The OED defines pyrope (from Greek Πυρωπός, lit. "fire-eyed")" as: "In early use applied vaguely to a red or fiery gem, as ruby or carbuncle; (mineralogy) the Bohemian garnet or fire-garnet"; and carbuncle or carbuncle-stone (from Latin "carbunculus", "small glowing ember") as: "A name variously applied to precious stones of a red or ...

6. College Football Playoff quarterfinal schedule, matchups ...

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   The semifinals of the 12-team College Football Playoff are set. And there are no conference champions remaining. All four of the teams still alive in the playoff hosted games in the first round of ...

7. Bluestone - Wikipedia

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   The darker blue color resulted in limestone from this region being dubbed "bluestone" and with two sequences measuring about 10,000 feet (3,000 m) thick, it gives the area one of the largest limestone deposits in the world. [20] The stone eventually fades from a deep blue to a light grey after prolonged exposure to sun and rain.