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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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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Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "Doublet" lapidary – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (November 2016) (Learn how...
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A lapidary is a text in verse or prose, often a whole book, that describes the physical properties and virtues of precious and semi-precious stones, that...
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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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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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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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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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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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The Lapidary Journal Jewelry Artist is an American magazine dedicated to lapidary interests such as gemology, jewelry design, metalworking, mineralogy...
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and Hardness Scales Archived 2008-10-17 at the Wayback Machine. Inland Lapidary Mukherjee, Swapna (2012). Applied Mineralogy: Applications in Industry...
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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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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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Petrodvorets Watch Factory (redirect from Peterhof Lapidary Works)
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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Aja'ib al-Makhluqat (section Lapidary)
'Aja'ib al-Makhluqat wa Ghara'ib al-Mawjudat (Arabic: عجائب المخلوقات وغرائب الموجودات, meaning The Wonders of Creatures and the Marvels of Creation) is...
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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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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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Fluorite (section Lapidary uses)
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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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 stone resembles ordinary limestone but when wet or polished using lapidary techniques, it reveals the distinctive mottled pattern of the six-sided...
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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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rocks, and preparing them for display. The hobby can lead naturally into lapidary projects, and also the cutting, polishing, and mounting of gemstones and...
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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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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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Maraqten identifies three different aleph traditions in East Arabian coins: a lapidary Aramaic form that realizes it as a combination of a V-shape and a straight...
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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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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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