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Midnight sky in Düsseldorf, Germany Midnight blue is a dark shade of blue named for its resemblance to the apparently blue color of a moonlit night sky around a full moon . Midnight blue is identifiably blue to the eye in sunlight or full-spectrum light , but can appear black under certain more limited spectra sometimes found in artificial ...
A purple-pink star sapphire displaying asterism in a platinum ring. An asterism (from Ancient Greek ἀστήρ (astḗr) 'star' and -ism) is a star-shaped concentration of light reflected or refracted from a gemstone. It can appear when a suitable stone is cut en cabochon (i.e. shaped and polished, not faceted).
The stone remains widely used in the United Kingdom and Ireland for human body weight: in those countries people may commonly be said to weigh, e.g., "11 stone 4" (11 stones and 4 pounds), rather than "72 kilograms" as in most of the other countries, or "158 pounds", the conventional way of expressing the same weight in the US and in Canada. [38]
There were also two varieties of refiners' carats once used in the United Kingdom—the pound carat and the ounce carat. [ v ] The pound troy was divisible into 24 pound carats of 240 grains troy each; the pound carat was divisible into four pound grains of 60 grains troy each; and the pound grain was divisible into four pound quarters of 15 ...
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The earliest evidence for deben is from the Early Dynastic Period.It was found at the site of Buto in Nile Delta.The weighing stone was uncovered in an archaeological context from Second Dynasty, in the so-called "labyrinth" building, it bears the inscription of the "friendly is the heart of Horus, director" (of the installation) "Hemsemenib".
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