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  2. Jewelry hygiene - Wikipedia

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    Jewelry hygiene is an area of study focusing on sanitary practices and habits relating to jewelry in an effort to understand jewelry's effect on hand hygiene. There are four key elements to optimally sanitizing jewelry: steam or hot water, water pressure and an antibacterial cleaning agent.

  3. Rodenticide - Wikipedia

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    Anticoagulants are defined as chronic (death occurs one to two weeks after ingestion of the lethal dose, rarely sooner), single-dose (second generation) or multiple-dose (first generation) rodenticides, acting by effective blocking of the vitamin-K cycle, resulting in inability to produce essential blood-clotting factors—mainly coagulation factors II (prothrombin) and VII (proconvertin).

  4. Betel nut chewing - Wikipedia

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    Betel nut chewing, also called betel quid chewing or areca nut chewing, is a practice in which areca nuts (also called "betel nuts") are chewed together with slaked lime and betel leaves for their stimulant and narcotic effects, the primary psychoactive compound being arecoline.

  5. Aventurine - Wikipedia

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    From the Murano glass the name passed to the mineral, which displayed a rather similar appearance. [1] Although it was known first, goldstone is now a common imitation of aventurine and sunstone. Goldstone is distinguished visually from the latter two minerals by its coarse flecks of copper , dispersed within the glass in an unnaturally uniform ...

  6. List of fictional elements, materials, isotopes and subatomic ...

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    Mysterious crystals to be held by Pokémon and used in battle to upgrade normal moves to Z-Moves through use of a Z-Ring by their trainer. Crystals available for each move type (from Bug to Water) and for 17 specific Pokémon. [97] [better source needed] Zynothium Teen Titans: A red compound that's highly unstable, dangerous, and rare.

  7. Goldstone (glass) - Wikipedia

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    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.

  8. Body piercing materials - Wikipedia

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    As said, gold jewelry should only be used in healing piercings if it is nickel free or palladium based. Allergy to gold is uncommon but it does exist, and then mostly from white gold. [9] [10] In some extreme cases, the copper in the jewelry can tarnish and cause greenish discoloring of the tissue. Gold can become discolored from autoclaving ...

  9. Tumble finishing - Wikipedia

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    During the 1970s, small rock tumblers were a common hobby item, and jewellery decorated with tumbled semi-precious stones was very much in fashion. Likewise, dishes and decorative glass jars filled with tumbled stones (often including common rocks not suitable even for costume jewelry) were frequently used as household ornaments.