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    Opal is a hydrated amorphous form of silica (SiO2·nH2O); its water content may range from 3% to 21% by weight, but is usually between 6% and 10%. Due to...
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  • Look up opal in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Opal is a gemstone. Opal or OPAL may also refer to: Opal, Alberta Opal Hills, Jasper National Park, Alberta...
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    Hurricane Opal was a large and powerful Category 4 hurricane that caused severe and extensive damage along the northern Gulf Coast of the United States...
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    Starburst (originally known as Opal Fruits) is the brand name of a box-shaped, fruit-flavoured soft taffy candy manufactured by The Wrigley Company, which...
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  • Opal is a contactless smartcard fare collection system for public transport services in the greater Sydney area. Operation of the Opal system is managed...
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  • OPAL (OPtimized Applicative Language) is a functional programming language first developed at Technische Universität Berlin. There is a later framework...
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  • Other notable individual opals: Galaxy Opal Flame Queen Opal Halley's Comet Opal Olympic Australis Opal "The Andamooka Opal Necklace and Earrings". From...
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    The Koroit opal field is an opal mining area in Paroo Shire in South West Queensland, Australia. It is located about 80 km north northwest of Cunnamulla...
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  • Twentieth Century Fox, and starring AnnaSophia Robb as Opal Buloni. A 10-year-old girl named India Opal Buloni has just moved to a trailer park in the small...
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  • The Galaxy Opal is the world's largest polished opal, certified by the Guinness Book of World Records in 1992. It was found at the Boi Morto Mine in Brazil...
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  • The Open Physics Abstraction Layer (OPAL) is an open source realtime physics engine API similar to PAL. It is currently supported only by ODE, but can...
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    Opal Lee (born October 7, 1926) is an American retired teacher, counselor, and activist in the movement to make Juneteenth a federally-recognized holiday...
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  • Opal was an American rock band in the 1980s. They were part of the Paisley Underground musical style. The band's name is derived from "Opel", a song by...
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  • fairies. The fourth book, Artemis Fowl and the Opal Deception, covers power-hungry and insane pixie Opal Koboi's second attempt at world domination, after...
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  • Look up opals in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Opals are gemstones. Opals may also refer to: OPALS, space experiment Australia women's national basketball...
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  • The Opal (1851–1860) is a ten volume journal written, edited and printed by the patients of the Utica State Lunatic Asylum, circa 1851. On its more than...
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    Coober Pedy (section Opals)
    The town is sometimes referred to as the "opal capital of the world" because of the quantity of precious opals that are mined there. A blower truck is raised...
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  • The name Opal has been used for twelve tropical cyclones worldwide – one in the Atlantic Ocean (after which it was replaced by the name Olga) and eleven...
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  • Outback Opal Hunters is an Australian factual television show which follows opal miners across various sites in the Australian states of New South Wales...
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    Opal is a variety of low-aromatic 91 RON petrol developed in 2005 by BP Australia to combat the rising use of gasoline as an inhalant in remote Indigenous...
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  • Australia opal is a 998 gram uncut opal mined by Walter Bartram in 1946 at the Eight Mile field in Coober Pedy, South Australia. The opal is just under...
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    The OPAL (Ostsee-Pipeline-Anbindungsleitung) is a natural gas pipeline in Germany alongside the German eastern border. The OPAL pipeline is one of two...
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    The Flame Queen Opal is perhaps the best-known example of "eye-of-opal", an eye-like effect created when opal in-fills a cavity. The Flame Queen's flat...
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    Opal Courtney Curless (born May 18, 1998) is an American professional soccer player who plays as a defender for Cruz Azul in the Liga MX Femenil. Curless...
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    Dark opal basil is a cultivar of Ocimum basilicum (sweet basil), developed by John Scarchuk and Joseph Lent at the University of Connecticut in the 1950s...
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    opal® is the brand name for apple cultivar 'UEB 32642'. The variety originates from a natural crossing of 'Golden Delicious' with 'Topaz'. Developed by...
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  • Opal Tapes is an English independent record label that releases abstracted forms of house music, techno, and other types of electronic music. Founded by...
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    remnants of the group Opal. Founding member David Roback's friend Hope Sandoval became the group's vocalist when Kendra Smith left Opal. The band's current...
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    Opal Cliffs is an unincorporated community in Santa Cruz County, California, United States. The population was 6,458 at the 2000 census. For statistical...
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  • The Opal Storage Specification is a set of specifications for features of data storage devices (such as hard disk drives and solid state drives) that enhance...
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