Quartz

from everything. The blue of the sky gives way to the purples and gold’s that shine from everything. Wonderful shadows frolic from the walls of jasper’s green. Everything is fluid radiating the light of all kinds of precious stones. The sapphire, the quartz, beautiful emeralds, all add their beauty to the waltz of swirling color. The onyx, the yellowish-green sapphire, topaz, the amethyst, and prisms emit a blinding light. “Where am I,” he asks over and over again? Every time he asks, more…

Art classifies a civilization; it distinguishes the difference in culture made by sculpture, paintings, and tapestry. Today I have attended the Metropolitan Museum of Arts, to visualize art in Ancient times from different civilizations. By observing each civilization sculpture, I would distinguish the difference between appearances of religious leaders or gods. Thus, furthering information learns from History class and comparing it to the sculptures I 've chosen. Egypt was a civilization where…

The definition of cool is dependent on the unique characteristics and popularity that allows something to stand out among other things within mainstream society. Characteristics, including the novelty, the design, the function, and the overall appeal, are what make something “cool” to us, and these characteristics are most evident in trends related to clothing and fashion. Clothing functions as not only a social necessity, but also a versatile mean of self-expression and cultural identity. The…

recorded which drugs, whether plant or mineral, the First Emperor . . . ingested in his quest for immortality, although it has been suggested that he took pills made from a distinctly poisonous mixture of gold, mercury, jade, sulphur, cinnabar, orpiment, quartz and lead, ‘dissolved’ in a herbal mixture” in hopes that the incorruptible nature of these substances would be transferred to his body (Wood 119). Even centuries later during the Ming Empire, the Ming Emperor also had an interest in…

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increasing strength. Though it is possible to add these to clay, this clay should not be recycled, and should not be run through clay processing machinery. Ovenware and flameware bodies can be used for cooking in and the mix can be formulated with quartz inversion effects to make the piece more resistant to heat shock at lower temperatures. Casting slips allows the clay to be poured into a mold. The slip buts be deflocculated to allow liquefying with only slightly more water than when used in…

Silicosis, a life threatening lung disease that can severely harm your ability to breathe. Starting in 1955, the Berkeley Pit became well known as a large truck-operated, open-air copper mine in Butte Montana. The unusually high copper prices resulted in the Anaconda Copper Mining Company opening many pit mines, including the Berkeley Pit. Buying up two communities and a lot of Butte’s previous population, the company was able to clear out a pit site. But after the discovery of very acidic…

Hmmm, I wonder if there is a way to create an ultrasound machine that could create 3D images. Kazunori Baba, M.D., Ph.D. thought to himself one day. For a time Kazunori Baba has been realizing the benefits of such a machine. He thinks to himself, the benefits of a 3D ultrasound would be monumental, my expecting mothers could not only see their babies in real time, but as a doctor I would also be able to better see the babies and find any possible birth defects before the delivery. But will there…

“The average American is exposed to at least three thousand ads every day and will spend three years of his or her life watching television commercials. Advertising makes up about 70 percent of our newspapers and 40 percent of our mail” (Kilbourne 90). Whether society realizes it or not, ads continue to influence people everywhere they go and every day of their lives. These ads affect how people see themselves and what they choose to purchase so that they can look better in society’s eyes and…

of solar energy. Dustin Mulvaney, a science advisor to the Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition, states potent gases and other harmful materials present a significant occupational risk in the factories during production. To start, silica is found in quartz or sand, which is the second most abundant element in the earth’s crust. In order to extract these materials from the earth, fossil fuel is used. Once this is transported to the factory, again by using fossil fuel, the silica is then heated by…