enow.com Web Search

Search results

1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network

2. List of gemstones by species - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_gemstones_by_species

   Goldstone (glittering glass) Hawk's eye; Helenite (artificial glass made from volcanic ash) Iddingsite; Kimberlite; Lamproite; Lapis lazuli; Libyan desert glass; Llanite; Maw sit sit; Moldavite; Obsidian; Apache tears; Pallasite; Peridotite (also known as olivinite) Siilinjärvi carbonatite; Soapstone (also known as steatite) Tactite; Tiger's ...

3. Goldstone (glass) - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldstone_(glass)

   Goldstone Goldstone glass under magnification. Goldstone is a type of glittering glass made in a low-oxygen reducing atmosphere.The finished product can take a smooth polish and be carved into beads, figurines, or other artifacts suitable for semiprecious stone, and in fact goldstone is often mistaken for or misrepresented as a natural material.

4. List of U.S. state minerals, rocks, stones and gemstones

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._state...

   In 1986, California named benitoite as its state gemstone, a form of the mineral barium titanium silicate that is unique to the Golden State and only found in gem quality in San Benito County. [ 80 ] ^ Colorado is the only state whose geological symbols reflect the national flag's colors: red (rhodochrosite), white (yule marble), and blue ...

5. Lustre (mineralogy) - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lustre_(mineralogy)

   Lustre (British English) or luster (American English; see spelling differences) is the way light interacts with the surface of a crystal, rock, or mineral.The word traces its origins back to the Latin lux, meaning "light", and generally implies radiance, gloss, or brilliance.

6. Mineralogy - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mineralogy

   An important influence on tenacity is the type of chemical bond (e.g., ionic or metallic). [9]: 255–256 Of the other measures of mechanical cohesion, cleavage is the tendency to break along certain crystallographic planes. It is described by the quality (e.g., perfect or fair) and the orientation of the plane in crystallographic nomenclature.

7. Amorphous metal - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amorphous_metal

   An amorphous metal (also known as metallic glass, glassy metal, or shiny metal) is a solid metallic material, usually an alloy, with disordered atomic-scale structure. Most metals are crystalline in their solid state, which means they have a highly ordered arrangement of atoms .

8. This multi-colored corn is real and there's a fantastic story ...

   www.aol.com/article/2016/06/11/multi-colored...

   Glass Gem corn, a unique variety of rainbow-colored corn, became an Internet sensation in 2012 when a photo of the sparkling cob was posted to Facebook. Shortly after, the company that sells the ...

9. Aventurescence - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aventurescence

   In gemology, aventurescence (sometimes called aventurization) is an optical reflectance effect seen in certain gems. The effect amounts to a metallic glitter, arising from minute, preferentially oriented mineral platelets within the material. These platelets are so numerous that they also influence the material's body colour.