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Ilmenite is a titanium-iron oxide mineral with the idealized formula FeTiO 3.It is a weakly magnetic black or steel-gray solid. Ilmenite is the most important ore of titanium [5] and the main source of titanium dioxide, which is used in paints, printing inks, [6] fabrics, plastics, paper, sunscreen, food and cosmetics.
LevelDB stores keys and values in arbitrary byte arrays, and data is sorted by key. It supports batching writes, forward and backward iteration, and compression of the data via Google's Snappy compression library.
The top layer also acts as a magnifier, to emphasize the play of color of the opal beneath, which is often an inferior specimen or an extremely thin section of precious opal. Triplet opals tend to have a more artificial appearance and are not classed as precious gemstones, but rather "composite" gemstones.
Hydraulic fracturing [a] is a well stimulation technique involving the fracturing of formations in bedrock by a pressurized liquid. The process involves the high-pressure injection of "fracking fluid" (primarily water, containing sand or other proppants suspended with the aid of thickening agents) into a wellbore to create cracks in the deep rock formations through which natural gas, petroleum ...
These two islands have sometimes been a single island in the past when worldwide sea level was lower than its present level. [ 7 ] The volume of volcanic rock that has built up the Canary Islands to thousands of metres above the ocean floor is about 124,600 km 3 (29,900 cu mi); 96% of this lava is hidden below sea level and only 4% (4,940 km 3 ...
The lake's water level fluctuates from month to month, with the highest lake levels in October and November. The normal high-water mark is 1.17 feet (0.36 m) above the datum (601.1 ft or 183.2 m). In the summer of 1985, Lake Superior reached its highest recorded level at 2.33 feet (0.71 m) above the datum.