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2. Tiffany glass - Wikipedia

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   Opalescent glass. The term "opalescent glass" is commonly used to describe glass where more than one color is present, being fused during the manufacture, as against flashed glass in which two colors may be laminated, or silver stained glass where a solution of silver nitrate is superficially applied, turning red glass to orange and blue glass to green.

3. Mississippian culture pottery - Wikipedia

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   The x-ray diffraction of a sample from an unfired lump of pottery clay excavated at the Zebree (3MS20) site confirmed that the shell was burned before being added to the raw clay. [10] Burning the shells eliminates the organic binder and the cooled, burnt shells are easily crushed into a shell temper of fine plate-like particles, some nearly ...

4. Shade (shadow) - Wikipedia

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   Full sun – more than five hours of direct sun per day. Part shade – two to five hours of direct sun, or all-day dappled sun (sunlight shining through open trees). Full shade – less than two hours of direct sun per day. Under a dense forest canopy, light intensity can be very low. Special adaptations produce the shade tolerance that allows ...

5. Space sunshade - Wikipedia

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   Several authors have proposed dispersing light before it reaches the Earth by putting a very large lens in space, perhaps at the L1 point between the Earth and the Sun. This plan was proposed in 1989 by J. T. Early. [25] His design involved making a large glass (2,000 km) occulter from lunar material and placing at the L1 point.

6. Umbrella - Wikipedia

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   Parts of an umbrella [2]. The word parasol is a combination of the Latin parare, and sol, meaning 'sun'. [3] Parapluie (French) similarly consists of para combined with pluie, which means 'rain' (which in turn derives from pluvia, the Latin word for rain); the usage of this word was prevalent in the nineteenth century.

7. Sunglasses - Wikipedia

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   Shades is a term used in North America. Glares is a term popular in India if the glass is dark. Glints is a term for glasses originating from the "glint" that is noticeable when somebody wearing glasses moves their head. Sun spectacles is a term used by some opticians. Spekkies is a term used predominantly in southern Australia.