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In 2015, the auction house Bonhams sold the 50.13-carat Hope Spinel for a world-record £962,500 ($1.22m) — over six times its estimate — helping to catapult the stone into public consciousness.
On November 5, 2020, Adopt Me! released several new features focused on combating scams, including the introduction of "trade licenses" that are required to be earned before one can trade pets above rare rarity, the amount of pets a player can trade, and the addition of viewable trade history and the addition of notifications to the player if ...
The confusion between spinel and taaffeite is understandable as certain structural features are identical in both. Anderson et al., [7] classified taaffeite as an intermediate mineral between spinel and chrysoberyl. [9] Unlike spinel, taaffeite displays the property of double refraction that allows distinction between these two minerals.
Polyhedral representation of spinel MgAl 2 O 4. Spinel (/ s p ɪ ˈ n ɛ l, ˈ s p ɪ n əl / [7]) is the magnesium/aluminium member of the larger spinel group of minerals. It has the formula MgAl 2 O 4 in the cubic crystal system. Its name comes from the Latin word spinella, a diminutive form of spine, in reference to its pointed crystals. [5]
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In 1838, in the inventory of crown items, the stone under the cross was called a “large ruby”, and in the inventory of 1865 it was already listed as “an irregularly shaped spinel ruby, worth 100,000 rubles”. [15] Since 1967, the crown, and along with it the historical spinel, has been an exhibit of the Diamond Fund.