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  • Thumbnail for Diploë
    known as the tables of the skull; the outer one is thick and tough; the inner is thin, dense, and brittle, and hence is termed the vitreous table. The intervening...
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    of potassium and chlorine. It is odorless and has a white or colorless vitreous crystal appearance. The solid dissolves readily in water, and its solutions...
    21 KB (2,000 words) - 23:07, 18 May 2024
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    Pigmented structural glass, also known generically as structural glass and as vitreous marble, and marketed under the names Carrara glass, Sani Onyx, and Vitrolite...
    13 KB (1,320 words) - 00:45, 22 October 2022
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    they began manufacturing a "white graniteware" and then in 1885 a semi-vitreous ware. A year later they replaced this with high fired china and a guarantee...
    8 KB (912 words) - 07:46, 1 July 2023
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    Asbestos, Quebec, Canada. Prehnite is brittle with an uneven fracture and a vitreous to pearly luster. Its hardness is 6.5, its specific gravity is 2.80–2.95...
    6 KB (531 words) - 08:16, 19 May 2024
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    metal-working (slags) or during the production of faience, a pre-glass vitreous material made by a process similar to glazing. Glass products remained...
    45 KB (5,540 words) - 16:04, 21 February 2024
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    the tables of the skull; the outer one is thick and tough; the inner is thin, dense, and brittle, and hence is termed the vitreous (glass-like) table. The...
    4 KB (523 words) - 08:38, 19 March 2024
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    cyclosilicate mineral. It is transparent to translucent. Its luster is vitreous to sub-adamantine. Its formula is Cu6Si6O18·6H2O (also reported as CuSiO2(OH)2)...
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    polycrystalline, such as glass, are called amorphous solids, also called glassy, vitreous, or noncrystalline. These have no periodic order, even microscopically...
    33 KB (3,732 words) - 21:35, 15 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Objet d'art
    d’art in the fields of the decorative arts and metalwork, porcelain and vitreous enamel; figurines, plaquettes, and engraved gems; ivory carvings and semi-precious...
    5 KB (575 words) - 07:27, 14 May 2024
  • Subcommittee on Manufactured Vitreous Fibers. 2000. Review of the U.S. Navy's Exposure Standard for Manufactured Vitreous Fibers. National Academy of Sciences...
    38 KB (4,632 words) - 02:53, 11 April 2024
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    death in 1942. Fiesta products before 1986 were semi-vitreous pottery, and after 1986 were vitreous china allowing marketing it for food service applications...
    32 KB (4,005 words) - 04:47, 11 April 2024
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    19th-century Meissen porcelain Spode plate, Stoke-on-Trent, England c.1792-94 Vitreous enamel on metal Steel Plate Geometric plate Seuso Treasure Romanian decorative...
    13 KB (1,648 words) - 19:38, 25 April 2024
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    translucent to opaque, with colors ranging from whitish grey to green with a vitreous and pearly luster. Talc is not soluble in water, and is slightly soluble...
    35 KB (3,818 words) - 10:00, 14 April 2024
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    Aspects of the Vitreous State. CRC Press. ISBN 978-0849337826. Gibbs, J. H. (1960). MacKenzie, J. D. (ed.). Modern Aspects of the Vitreous State. Butterworth...
    49 KB (5,301 words) - 01:19, 28 May 2024
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    Dalton's original hypothesis for his deuteranopia was actually that the vitreous humor of his eye was discolored: I was led to conjecture that one of the...
    93 KB (10,128 words) - 10:30, 20 May 2024
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    Cellini Salt Cellar (category Works in vitreous enamel)
    been of great interest to Europeans. The salt cellar is made of gold, vitreous enamel, ebony and ivory. The gold is not cast in a mold, but instead hammered...
    14 KB (1,534 words) - 09:36, 20 May 2024
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    chin rest. This allows inspection of all the ocular media, from cornea to vitreous, plus magnified view of eyelids, and other external ocular related structures...
    17 KB (2,079 words) - 09:10, 16 March 2024
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    Lukas; Freestone, Ian; Tite, Michael (2006). "Natron as a flux in the early vitreous materials industry: sources, beginnings and reasons for decline". Journal...
    69 KB (8,164 words) - 16:32, 24 May 2024
  • sometimes followed by alternative roots that might have collated earlier in the table had they been listed separately (in this example, "a-" and "ac-"). Lists...
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