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    Lapidary (from the Latin lapidarius) is the practice of shaping stone, minerals, or gemstones into decorative items such as cabochons, engraved gems (including...
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    Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "Doublet" lapidary – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (November 2016) (Learn how...
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  • lapidary in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Lapidary is the practice of shaping stone, minerals, or gemstones. Lapidary may also refer to: Lapidary (text)...
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  • Lapidary style is prose that is appropriate for memorials, mausoleums, stelae, and other commemorations in which words are "etched in stone"; it is concise...
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    A lapidary is a text in verse or prose, often a whole book, that describes the physical properties and metaphysical virtues of precious and semi-precious...
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  • Lapidary clubs promote popular interest and education in lapidary, the craft of working, forming and finishing stone, minerals and gemstones. These clubs...
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  • Lapidary medicine is a pseudoscientific concept based on the belief that gemstones have healing properties. The source of the idea of lapidary medicine...
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    Lapidarium (redirect from Lapidary museum)
    and history museums. A lapidary museum could either be a lapidarium or – less often – a gem museum (e.g. the Mineral and Lapidary Museum, North Carolina)...
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    The Lizzadro Museum of Lapidary Art is a museum dedicated to the lapidary arts with displays of gemstones, jewelry and bejeweled objects, and exhibits...
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    The Mineral and Lapidary Museum of Henderson County is a non-profit, volunteer-run museum in Hendersonville, North Carolina, United States, founded in...
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    2006 – via galleries.com. "Mineral hardness and hardness scales". Inland Lapidary. Archived from the original on 17 October 2008 – via inlandlapidary.com...
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    (Italian: [ˈpjɛːtra ˈduːra]), pietre dure ([ˈpjɛːtre ˈduːre]) or intarsia lapidary (see below), called parchin kari or parchinkari (Persian: پرچین کاری) in...
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    factories in Russia. Founded by Peter the Great in 1721 as the Peterhof Lapidary Works, to make hardstone carvings, since 1945 the factory manufactures...
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  • The so-called Old English Lapidary (Cotton Tiberius A.iii) is a 10th or 11th century Old English lapidary, a translation of older Latin glosses on the...
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    Lapidary Point (62°11′48″S 58°56′01″W / 62.19661°S 58.93358°W / -62.19661; -58.93358) is the southwest entrance point to Rocky Cove, Maxwell Bay, King...
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    in the lapidary trade through guides for rockhounds. Specimens from many of these sites have been avidly collected by rockhounds and lapidary enthusiasts...
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    there were many variant forms of the letter A. First was the monumental or lapidary style, which was used when inscribing on stone or other more permanent...
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    impurities usually make it a colorful mineral and the stone has ornamental and lapidary uses. Industrially, fluorite is used as a flux for smelting, and in the...
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    weekends from 10:00 up to 16:00 local time, and is closed Mondays. The lapidary collection compiled materials from the personal collection of famous Explorer...
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    two main styles, the "lapidary" form, usually inscribed on hard surfaces like stone monuments, and a cursive form whose lapidary form tended to be more...
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    lapidary letters. Greek lapidary letters were carved into stone and "one of the first formal uses of Western letterforms"; after that, Roman lapidary...
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  • The Lapidary Journal Jewelry Artist is an American magazine dedicated to lapidary interests such as gemology, jewelry design, metalworking, mineralogy...
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    confederacies participated in the ethnogenesis of the Armenians. A large cuneiform lapidary inscription found in Yerevan established that the modern capital of Armenia...
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    Modern Art. Municipal Museum of Risorgimento. Este Headstones Museum. Roman Lapidary Museum. Graziosi Gallery of Plaster Casts. City Museum of Archaeology and...
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    Groman-Yaroslavski, Iris; Bar-Yosef Mayer, Daniella E. (June 2015). "Lapidary technology revealed by functional analysis of carnelian beads from the...
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  • A heat torch is a tool or device that is used to heat up a substance quickly, whether it is air, metal, plastic, or other materials. Heat torches typically...
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    silicon carbide wheels can be used to grind the rough rock down. Most lapidary workshops and production facilities have moved away from silicon carbide...
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    Lapidary and MMGM Founding director and trustee emeritus, Robert F. Ritchie, MD, donated to the museum more than 800 stone spheres and the lapidary equipment...
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    facets around the top edge. Most emeralds are oiled as part of the post-lapidary process, in order to fill in surface-reaching cracks so that clarity and...
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    Bibcode:1960Natur.187..493M. doi:10.1038/187493a0. S2CID 4224209. "Thomas Nicols: A Lapidary or History of Gemstones". 1652. Archived from the original on August 19...
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