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I love all the "snapdragon is best" comments, yes obviously it is better... No one is saying it is not, it is actually completely evident in all ways that snapdragon is better, and this article does in no way dispute that fact. But I do still enjoy seeing technology advance to a point where even a company like this can be competitive with performance and still maintain cheaper prices. And also that comma is completely throwing off the graph.
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Snapdragon 800 still thrashes this cheap octa core, it's just a gimmick, for me give me a quad core snapdragon 800 or tegra 4 chip any day, anyone who likes this mediatek rubbish needs his brain testing.
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This is better suited for all those chinese branded phones
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Bring 3 quarts of water and a pinch of salt to a boil over high heat in the saucepan. Add the shrimp, lower the heat to medium, and simmer uncovered for 1 minute. Drain the shrimp and cool them to room temperature.
Combine the tomato, bell pepper, shallot, garlic, chopped basil, lemon juice, oil, salt, and black pepper in the bowl with a metal spoon. Add the cooled shrimp, toss well, and marinate in the refrigerator for 4 to 6 hours. (As the shrimp marinate, they get more garlicky.)
Drain the shrimp, reseason with additional salt and black pepper, and arrange them in a flat basket or on a black rectangular or round serving tray. Place the whole basil leaves in the center of the platter and serve with Ginger Yogurt Dip.
Ginger Yogurt Dip
Combine the yogurt, lemon juice, ginger, and garlic in the bowl. Add the salt and pepper to taste. Whisk well until the mixture is smooth.
Place in a small bowl and serve with the Garlicky Doused Shrimp.
Sea scallops can be substituted for the shrimp. Heat 2 tablespoons of olive oil in a medium skillet over medium-high heat. Sear the scallops for 1 to 2 minutes on each side, until they are golden brown and opaque in the center when tested with the tip of a knife. Cut them in quarters and follow the instructions for the shrimp recipe.
KITCHENWARE: chef's knife, medium saucepan, colander, large glass or stainless-steel bowl, pepper mill, metal spoon. For Dip: small bowl, whisk
Per serving: 31.4 calories, 14.3 calories from fat, 1.6g total fat, 0.2g saturated fat, 0.3mg cholesterol, 84.6mg sodium, 3.6g total carbs, 0.2g dietary fiber, 3.0g sugars, 0.8g protein
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From The Bride & Groom's Menu Cookbook by Abigail Kirsch and Susan M. Greenberg Copyright (c) 2002 by Abigail Kirsch and Susan M. Greenberg Published by Broadway Books.
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Synthetic gemstones having extraordinary brilliance and hardness are formed from large single crystals of relatively low impurity, translucent silicon carbide of a single polytype that are grown in a furnace sublimation system. The crystals are cut into rough gemstones that are thereafter fashioned into finished gemstones. A wide range of colors and shades is available by selective doping of the crystal during growth. A colorless gemstone is produced by growing the crystal undoped in a system substantially free of unwanted impurity atoms.
1. A method of producing a finished gemstone having a Mohs hardness of approximately 8.5-9.25, a density (SG) of approximately 3.2, and a refractive index of approximately 2.50-2.71, said method comprising the steps of:
growing a single crystal of a single polytype of silicon carbide of a desired color character; and
faceting and polishing the silicon carbide crystal into a finished gemstone.
2. The method set forth in claim 1 including the step of growing the single crystal of silicon carbide in colorless form.
3. The method set forth in claim 2 including the step of growing the single crystal of silicon carbide from a seed crystal in a sublimation system.
4. The method set forth in claim 2 comprising the step of growing the single crystal as 6H SiC.
5. The method set forth in claim 4 comprising the step of growing the single crystal as intrinsic 6H SiC.
6. The method set forth in claim 2 comprising the step of growing the single crystal as 4H SiC.
7. The method set forth in claim 6 comprising the step of growing the single crystal as intrinsic 4H SiC.
8. The method set forth in claim 1 wherein the step of growing the crystal of silicon carbide includes selectively doping the crystal to produce a desired color and shade for the crystal.
9. The method set forth in claim 8 wherein the color of the finished gemstone, and the crystalline structure and doping characteristics of the silicon carbide crystal that produce the color, are selected from the group consisting of: (a) blue, 6H SiC, Al-doped; (b) purple, 6H SiC, high Al-doped; (c) purple, 24R SiC, N-doped; (d) green, 6H SiC, N-doped; (e) yellow, 3C SiC, undoped; (f) yellow-green, 3C SiC, N-doped; (g) red, 27R SiC, N-doped; (h) light brown, 4H SiC, low N-doped; and (i) yellow-orange, 8H SiC, N-doped.
10. The method set forth in claim 1 wherein the step of faceting and polishing includes faceting the silicon carbide crystal with diamond cuts.
11. The method set forth in claim 10 wherein the step of faceting and polishing includes polishing the facets with progressively larger-to-smaller grit sizes.
12. The method of claim 1 further comprising the step of cutting the as-grown single crystal into a plurality of rough synthetic gemstones.
13. A method of producing a finished gemstone of synthetic silicon carbide from a single crystal of silicon carbide, comprising the steps of:
cutting a single crystal of synthetic silicon carbide into a plurality of rough synthetic gemstones; and
faceting and polishing one of the rough synthetic gemstones into a finished gemstone.
14. A method of producing a finished simulated diamond gemstone comprising the steps of:
growing a colorless single crystal of a single polytype of silicon carbide in a crystal growth system while maintaining the system substantially free of gaseous or vaporized impurity atoms capable of imparting an undesirable level of color; and
faceting and polishing the silicon carbide crystal into a finished gemstone.
15. The method set forth in claim 14 wherein the step of faceting and polishing includes the step of faceting the silicon carbide crystal with diamond cuts.
16. The method set forth in claim 15 wherein the step of faceting and polishing includes polishing the facets with progressively larger-to-smaller grit sizes.
17. The method set forth in claim 16 wherein the polishing step includes the use of a lap wheel with progressively larger-to-smaller grit sizes.
18. The method set forth in claim 17 including the step of operating the lap wheel at speeds below 3000 RPM.
19. The method set forth in claim 18 including the step of operating the lap wheel at speeds on the order of 300 RPM.
20. The method of claim 14 further comprising the step of cutting the as grown single crystal into a plurality of rough synthetic gemstones.
21. A method of producing a finished simulated diamond gemstone comprising:
growing a single crystal of colorless silicon carbide; and
shaping and dimensioning the silicon carbide crystal with facets and polishing the facets to a degree of optical smoothness characteristic of finished diamond gemstones, to thereby produce a finished simulated diamond gemstone.
22. A simulated diamond gemstone produced by the method of claim 21.
23. The method of claim 21 wherein a final polishing step is carried out with an effective grit size of about 0.5-1 micron.
24. A simulated diamond gemstone produced by the method of claim 23.
25. The method of claim 21 wherein the shaping, dimensioning and polishing are performed utilizing progressively larger to smaller grit sizes.
26. A method of producing a finished silicon carbide gemstone having a visually discernable color, said method comprising:
growing a single crystal of translucent silicon carbide;
during the crystal growth step, selectively doping the crystal by adding dopant atoms capable of giving the crystal a color and shade; and
shaping and dimensioning the silicon carbide crystal with facets and polishing the facets to a degree of optical smoothness characteristic of finished gemstones, to thereby produce a faceted gemstone having a visually discernable color.
27. A finished silicon carbide gemstone produced by the method of claim 26.
28. The method of claim 26 wherein a final polishing step is carried out with an effective grit size of about 0.5-1 micron.
29. A finished gemstone produced by the method of claim 28.
30. The method set forth in claim 26 wherein the dopant atoms are added at concentrations ranging from 1015 to 1019 carrier atoms per cubic centimeter.
31. A method of producing a finished simulated diamond gemstone comprising:
faceting and polishing a rough gemstone formed of a single crystal of colorless synthetic silicon carbide to produce a finished simulated diamond gemstone having shape and polish characteristics permitting light to enter the gemstone and reflect from inside the gemstone.
32. The method set forth in claim 3 wherein the finished simulated diamond gemstone has a round brilliant shape.
33. The method set forth in claim 31 wherein the synthetic silicon carbide has a crystalline structure selected from the group consisting of : 6H SiC and 4H SiC.
The invention relates to synthetic gemstones. More particularly, the invention relates to synthetic gemstones formed of translucent, monocrystalline silicon carbide.
Gemstones Generally
There are a limited number of elements and chemical compounds that have the physical characteristics to be useful as gemstones. The physical characteristics that are generally accepted as being most important are hardness, refractive index and color, although thermal stability, chemical stability and toughness are also considered important in many gemstone applications.
To date, the only chemical substances technically considered precious stones are diamond (single crystalline carbon) and corundum (sapphire and ruby single crystalline aluminum oxide!) because their hardness when measured on the Mohs scale is approximately 9 or higher. The Mohs system is a scale for ranking hardness of a mineral with diamond being the hardest at 10, sapphire at 9, topaz 8 down to the softest mineral, talc, which is 1. Emerald, because it is rare, is accepted as a precious stone even though its hardness is 7.5 while other gems, such as chrysoberyl, topaz and garnet, are usually classified as semiprecious stones because of their lower hardness. Hardness has practical value in that it defines the ability of a gemstone to resist scratching.
Refractive index is important because it defines the ability of a gemstone to refract light. When materials with a high refractive index are fashioned into finished gemstones they sparkle and appear brilliant when exposed to light. The characteristic sparkle of a diamond is due mainly to its high refractive index.
The color of a gemstone is determined by a variety of factors, from the impurity atoms that are available to be incorporated into the crystal lattice to the physical and electronic structure of the crystal itself. A ruby, for instance, is simply a sapphire crystal (aluminum oxide) that contains a small concentration of chromium impurity atoms.
The thermal and chemical stability of a gemstone can be important during the process of mounting stones into jewelry. In general, it is beneficial if stones can be heated to high temperatures without changing color or reacting with ambient gases (that mar the surface finish).
The toughness of a gemstone relates to the ability of the gemstone to absorb energy without breaking, chipping or cracking. A gemstone must be able to withstand those impact forces normally encountered during a lifetime of use mounted on a ring or other jewelry item.
Hardness, refractive index, color, thermal/chemical stability and toughness are all characteristics that, in combination, determine the usefulness of a material as a gemstone.
Synthetic Diamond Gemstones
Dating from the 1960s, an effort to produce gem-quality synthetic diamonds was pursued by General Electric Company as evidenced by numerous patents, including U.S. Pat. No. 4,042,673. These efforts centered around the use of very high pressure/high temperature environments for growth of monocrystalline diamonds on seed crystals. Gem-quality synthetic diamonds generally have not gained commercial acceptance.
Synthetic Silicon Carbide Used As Abrasives And Semiconductor Materials
Silicon carbide is rarely found in nature. However, it has been manufactured for more than eighty years, in crystalline form, for abrasive products. Silicon carbide crystals found in nature and in abrasive products are black and not translucent because they contain substantial levels of impurity atoms.
During the 1960s and 1970s, significant development activities were initiated with the objective of growing large (bulk) crystals of low impurity silicon carbide for use in the production of semiconductor devices. These efforts finally resulted in the commercial availability of relatively low impurity, translucent silicon carbide crystals in 1990. These silicon carbide crystals are only fabricated and marketed as very thin, green or blue (175 um-400 um) slices useful for semiconductor devices.
Silicon carbide has a very high hardness (8.5-9.25 Mohs depending on the polytype atomic arrangement! and crystallographic direction)and a high refractive index (2.5-2.71 depending on the polytype). Furthermore, silicon carbide is a very tough material and an extremely stable material that can be heated to more than 2000� F., in air, without suffering damage.
Silicon carbide is a complex material system that forms more than 150 different polytypes, each having different physical and electronic properties. The different polytypes can be classified in three basic forms, cubic, rhombohedral and hexagonal. Both the rhombohedral and hexagonal forms can occur in a number of different atomic arrangements that vary according to atomic stacking sequence.
The present invention, in one broad aspect, is the discovery that relatively low impurity, translucent, single crystal silicon carbide--presently used as the material for fabrication of very thin semiconductor devices--may be grown with desired color and thereafter cut, faceted and polished into synthetic finished gemstones having (i) a hardness approaching that of diamond, (ii) excellent toughness, (iii) excellent thermal/chemical stability, and (iv) a high refractive index that renders the silicon carbide gemstone as brilliant, if not more brilliant, than diamond. According to this aspect of the invention, a single crystal of silicon carbide, preferably of consistent color, is grown by an appropriate technique such as the sublimation technique disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. Re. 34,861. Instead of slicing the large crystal into many thin slices, the crystals serve as boules that are cut into rough synthetic gemstones having a weight on the order of, for example, 1/4 to 5 carats. The rough gemstones thereafter are fashioned into finished synthetic silicon carbide gemstones. The faceting and polishing techniques are derived from those techniques currently used in connection with the faceting and polishing of colored gemstones such as rubies and sapphire, incorporating certain procedures utilized in connection with diamonds.
As mentioned above, preferably the single crystals of silicon carbide are grown under the same or similar conditions that are used to produce crystals having the low impurity levels necessary for semiconductor applications, with it being appreciated, of course, that higher impurity levels may be permissible within accepted ranges consistent with the need for materials having suitable translucence and other optical properties for gemstone use.
Silicon carbide crystals can be grown in a wide range of colors (including green, blue, red, purple, yellow, and black) and shades within each color by the appropriate selection of dopants (e.g., nitrogen and aluminum) and by varying the net doping densities (concentrations). Undoped silicon carbide crystals in the hexagonal or rhombohedral forms are colorless and meet, or exceed, the brilliance of diamond.
Rough silicon carbide gemstones are cut from large single crystals and then fashioned into finished gemstones by a combination of techniques currently employed in connection with conventional colored gemstones and diamonds. The hardness and toughness of silicon carbide permit the stones to be faceted with very sharp edges, thus enhancing the overall appearance and brilliance of the stones.
Some of the objects having been stated, other objects will appear as the description proceeds, when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, in which
FIG. 1 is a pictorial view of a boule comprising a large single crystal of one polytype of silicon carbide.
FIG. 2 is an enlarged pictorial view of a rough synthetic gemstone cut from the single crystal of FIG. 1.
FIG. 3 is an enlarged pictorial view of a finished synthetic silicon carbide gemstone fashioned from the rough stone of FIG. 2.
While the present invention will be described more fully hereinafter with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which aspects of the preferred manner of practicing the present invention are shown, it is to be understood at the outset of the description which follows that persons of skill in the appropriate arts may modify the invention herein described while still achieving the favorable results of this invention. Accordingly, the description which follows is to be understood as being a broad, teaching disclosure directed to persons of skill in the appropriate arts, and not as limiting upon the present invention.
Referring to the drawings, FIG. 1 shows a "boule" comprising a large single crystal 11 of silicon carbide that weighs approximately 716 carats and from which approximately 105 five carat rough synthetic gemstones (FIG. 2) may be cut. Each five carat rough gemstone, when fashioned into a finished gemstone, will yield an approximate sized gemstone on the order of two carats. Crystal 11 is substantially cylindrical and measures approximately 44 mm high and 40 mm in diameter. In the preferred manner of practicing the invention, crystal 11 is formed of a single polytype, for example, a hexagonal form such as 6H SiC, and has a low enough impurity level to render the crystal sufficiently translucent for use as a gemstone.
Crystal 11 is grown by an appropriate sublimation or deposition or other growth technique used to grow large (bulk) silicon carbide single crystals, with the preferred method being sublimation growth on a seed crystal. According to this preferred technique, crystal 11 is grown by introducing a polished monocrystalline seed crystal of silicon carbide of a desired polytype into the furnace of a sublimation system along with silicon and carbon containing source gas or powder (source material). The source material is heated to a temperature that causes the source material to create a vapor flux that deposits vaporized Si, Si2 C, and SiC2 to the growth surface of the seed crystal. The reproducible growth of a single selected polytype on the seed crystal is achieved by maintaining a constant flux of Si, Si2 C and SiC2, and by controlling the thermal gradient between the source material and the seed crystal.
Crystals grown by sublimation techniques have been used as a material from which very thin slices are taken for use in the production of semiconductor devices. These slices (175 um-400 um) have been green or blue, like the crystal, with the color (and desired electrical properties) achieved by intentionally doping with selected dopants at selected concentrations during the growth process.
Undoped (intrinsic) silicon carbide has not been grown commercially. The extremely low electrical conductivity of undoped silicon carbide would give it no practical value in the fabrication of semiconductor products. However, it has been found that because the hexagonal and rhombohedral polytypes of silicon carbide have wide energy band gaps (>2.7 electron volts) if they are grown undoped (or, equivalently, with a very low level of impurity atoms) the crystals will be colorless. In order to grow undoped, colorless silicon carbide single crystals, the crystal growth system is maintained substantially free of unwanted gaseous or vaporized impurity atoms that would result in unintentional doping of the crystal as it grows utilizing low pressure bake-out techniques as are well known in the art. Preferred polytypes for colorless silicon carbide gemstones are 6H and 4H SiC. The seed for initiating growth of the single crystal for such gemstones is the seed having the same polytype, 6H or 4H SiC respectively.
To create crystals of hexagonal silicon carbide having different colors, one must intentionally add specific impurity atoms. The cubic or 3C form of silicon carbide, because of its more narrow energy band gap, will appear yellow when undoped with impurity atoms. Since a large number of different atomic arrangements of silicon carbide exist (any of which can be doped with a number of different dopants in various combinations and concentrations) it is possible to produce gemstones in a wide range of colors and shades. With the 6H polytype, the dopants commonly used are nitrogen (n type) and aluminum (p type) in concentrations typically ranging from a low range on the order of 1015 carrier atoms per cubic centimeter to a high range on the order of 1019 carrier atoms per cubic centimeter. Other dopants such as boron may be used at concentrations sufficient to achieve desired colors and shades. The table below gives various atomic arrangements and dopants that produce several representative basic colors.
______________________________________Colorless 6H SiC UndopedColorless 4H SiC UndopedBlue 6H SiC Al-dopedPurple 6H SiC High Al-dopedPurple 24R SiC N-dopedGreen 6H SiC N-dopedYellow 3C SiC UndopedYellow-Green 3C SiC N-dopedRed 27R SiC N-dopedLight Brown 4H SiC Low N-dopedYellow-Orange 8H SiC N-doped______________________________________
Although the above combinations yield a wide variety of colors, all of the crystals have two very important characteristics in common, (1) high hardness and (2) high refractive index. The hardness and refractive index of silicon carbide are compared with other gemstone materials, along with a comparison of density:
______________________________________ Mohs Refractive Density Hardness Index (SG)______________________________________Emerald 7.5 1.59 2.5Corundum (sap & ruby) 9 1.77 3.9Diamond 10 2.42 3.5Silicon Carbide (6H) 9 2.69 3.2Silicon Carbide (4H) 9 2.71 3.2Cubic Zirconia 7.5 1.98 4.7______________________________________
As illustrated by the table above, silicon carbide, when produced in certain atomic arrangements with the controlled introduction of specific dopant atoms, is an excellent colored gemstone material that has physical characteristics comparing favorably with, or exceeding, those of corundum and emerald. In its undoped hexagonal and rhombohedral forms, silicon carbide is the best known candidate to replicate the characteristics of diamond.
Fashioning the Gemstones
Referring back to the drawings, the silicon carbide crystal 11 (FIG. 1) of perhaps 716 carats is cut into multiple rough synthetic gemstones 12 (one shown in FIG. 2) having a selected weight, for example, five carats. The rough gemstone 12 preferably has a cubic or approximately cubic shape. In order to produce a finished gemstone as illustrated in FIG. 3, it has been found desirable to fashion the rough gemstone 12 into a finished gemstone according to a novel process that is best suited to taking advantage of the physical characteristics of silicon carbide. This process incorporates faceting techniques that result in precise angles and very sharp edges to take full advantage of the toughness and hardness of the silicon carbide material, while incorporating other techniques more similar to those used on colored stones. A more complete description of the fashioning process will be set forth below following a brief discussion of fashioning, in general, and certain aspects of fashioning colored gemstones such as rubies, sapphires and emeralds.
Fashioning In General (Prior Art)
Gemstone fashioning includes four techniques: faceting, tumbling, cabbing and carving. Faceting produces flat faces (facets) on gems of many different shapes. Transparent and highly translucent gems are normally faceted. Less translucent and opaque materials are usually tumbled, cabbed or carved because the optical properties associated with faceting depend on light reflecting from inside the stone.
A gem's shape is its outline face up, the position in which it is meant to be seen when it is mounted. Shapes other than round are called fancy. Some popular fancy shapes include the well-known emerald cut, cushion, antique cushion, oval, pear, and marquis. Colored stones (and diamonds over three carats) are generally cut into fancy shapes because a lapidary can keep more weight of the original gemstone by utilizing a fancy shape, thus improving the weight yield.
The precise, standardized faceting seen in diamonds is rare in colored stones. One reason is the inability of some colored stones, because of their lower hardness and toughness, to be faceted into sharp angles without breaking or chipping. Another is the difference in what professionals and consumers expect of diamonds versus other stones. "Oriental or native cut" are terms used to describe faceted gems which have distorted shapes and irregularly placed facets and are more common on colored stones. The jewelry industry accepts not perfected faceted colored stones. Most colored stones are faceted just enough to let the light in.
Most faceted gems have three main parts: crown, girdle, and pavilion. The crown is the top part, the girdle is the narrow section that forms the boundary between the crown and pavilion; it is the gem's setting edge. The pavilion is the bottom. Colored stones usually have facets on the pavilion and crown.
The Fashioning Process In General For Colored Stones (Prior Art)
The colored gemstone faceter begins by grinding the rough colored gemstone into the approximate shape and dimensions of the finished stone. This is called preforming. Preforming takes a coarse abrasive. Diamond grit embedded in a nickel-plated copper disc is the best choice for preforming very hard colored stones (corundum, chrysoberyl, spinel and silicon carbide).
Water is the wetting agent in preforming and the rest of the faceting sequence. Lapidaries use various arrangements to keep the wheels wet. Preforming roughs in the girdle outline and the general profile of the crown and pavilion, leaving a frosted surface all around the stone. Before grinding in the facets, the lapidary needs to mount the colored stone on a dopstick. The procedure is called dopping. The stone is gently heated, then brought up against the end of the dop, which has been dipped into melted dopping wax. Once the preform has set in position, it is set aside to cool.
The facets of the colored stone are ground and polished on horizontally spinning wheels called laps. Lapidaries use a series of cutting laps with progressively finer grit to grind in the facets, gradually smoothing out their surfaces. Then they do final polishing on a special polishing lap.
Polishing laps are made from a variety of materials. The polishing agents with which these are charged are very finely ground powders, including diamond, corundum, cerium oxide, and tin oxide. To cut and polish consistently at the same desired angles, the faceter attaches the dopstick to a device that holds the stone in position as it meets the lap. The traditional setup used in many colored stone shops is the jamb peg. This has a block mounted on a vertical post. The dopstick fits into one of a series of holes on the side of the block. The position of each hole sets a specific angle (from the girdle plane) at which the facet is cut. Turning the dopstick in the hole places all the facets of a given type at the same angle in their circuit around the stone.
The Fashioning Process for Silicon Carbide Gemstones
Because the beauty of most diamonds depends on sparkle, brilliance, and fire (not color), diamond cutters must carefully control the cutting factors that affect these characteristics. It is very difficult to put diamond cuts on colored gemstones.
Because the refractive index of silicon carbide is greater than that of diamond and colored stones, according to the present invention the silicon carbide gemstone is fashioned with precision diamond cuts using diamond hand tools known as tangs. Tangs allow the cutter to set and adjust the angle of the facet, something the cutter is unable to do with colored stone hand tools which are preset. It is the precision of the diamond hand tools, tangs, that enables the cutter to use the angles and proportions of a diamond, resulting in "sharp edges" on the silicon carbide gemstones of the invention. However, because silicon carbide is not as hard as diamond, traditional colored stone lap wheels are used in the faceting process at rotational speeds less than those speeds typically used for diamond wheels, i.e., less than 3000 RPM, and preferably at rotational speeds on the order of 300 RPM.
Turning to a more particular description of the silicon carbide fashioning technique of the invention, the silicon carbide rough gemstone is mounted on a dopstick and secured within the top tang. The edge Girdle is cut first on the grinding wheel. This determines the shape of the stone.
The Table, the flat top which is the biggest facet on the whole stone, is cut next also using the table tang. The Table is then polished using a four-step process of laps (disks, wheels or sciaves) progressing from rough to smooth grit sizes. Polishing may begin with 600 a grit lap moving to 1200 grit, then to 3000 grit and ending with a ceramic disk having an effective grit size of 0.5 to 1 micron, which is the smoothest.
The dop is then transferred to a top tang to cut the top side and make the Crosswork which consists of 4 Basics (facets). Then the dop is transferred to a bottom tang and the bottom side is cut into the Crosswork which consists of 4 Basics (facets). At this time, the stone is examined by visual inspection to determine its precision. After this inspection, the 4 lap polishing process outlined for the Table is repeated for the Basics.
The dop is transferred to the top tang and the top side Star facets--there are 8 of these cut along with the Upper Girdle Facets (16 facets), The dop is transferred to the bottom tang and Lower Girdle Facets (16 facets) are cut. The 4 lap polishing process outlined for the Table and Basics is repeated for the remaining Girdle facets. The rough is now a faceted and polished round brilliant gemstone 13 as shown in FIG. 3.
While the invention has been described in connection with certain illustrated embodiments, it will be appreciated that modifications may be made without departing from the true spirit and scope of the invention.
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Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai has ordered all U.S. special forces out of Wardak province. "We're working with the government of Afghanistan to define precisely what their concerns were," said spokesman George Little. "Obviously we take all of their concerns very seriously." The concern came up after civilians living in Wardak complained of killings, beatings and other abuse at the hands of Afghan troops working with US forces.
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"I'm a citizen of the world. I like it that way. The world's a wonderful. I just think that some people are pretty badly represented. But when you speak to the people themselves they're delightful. They all want so little."
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Volume 2, The Shadowed Mind - After the deadly investigation into the Smithsonian murders, Dinah Harris is now facing a daily battle to keep her sobriety while struggling to form a new career from the ashes of her former job as an FBI agent. From the shadows will emerge a cunning and terrifying killer, who carefully and methodically will decide whose life has value to society and whose does not.
Using her profiling and security skills as a private consultant based in Washington, DC, Dinah uncovers a connection to the shadowy world of neo-eugenics, and those who publicly denounce the killings but privately support a much different view.
Against this backdrop, Dinah must come to terms with her own past, as those associated with the deepening mystery face their own personal demons, and struggle with the concept of God's inexhaustible grace and forgiveness. Old secrets are revealed, tragedies unearthed, and the devastating legacy of science without compassion is finally brought to light.
Volume 3, Pieces of Light - Washington D.C. is gripped by terror as religious icons and buildings are targeted by a serial bomber. While authorities race to stop the violence, consultant Dinah Harris works with subtle clues to unlock the killer's identity. Does a disillusioned young Christian named Celia hold the key?
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North Shore Environmental Consultants Inc. (North Shore) is a progressive environmental company based in Sherwood Park AB, with offices in Calgary AB, Lacombe AB, and Regina SK. North Shore offers cost efficient and effective solutions to the complex environmental challenges faced by today`s industries. North Shore offers a variety of environmental services to industry, ...
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HMT, founded in 1978, has been the global leader in storage tank technology development. HMT provides quality products including: external seal systems, internal seal systems, floating suction and drain systems, geodesic dome roofs, skin and pontoon floating roofs, full contact floating roofs and emissions reduction devices. In addition, HMT's global team of engineers, ...
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Since 1933, Heath has been the leading service provider, manufacturer and distributor for a wide range of gas detection, pipe and cable locating and odorant analysis equipment including the Detecto-Pak Infrared (DP-IR™), Remote Methane Leak Detector (RMLD™) and the GT Series gas detectors. Heath also has products specifically designed to meet requirements for the upstream ...
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[UPDATE: The Wolverine trailer will not be attached to The Hobbit. Read on for more details.]
It's a no-brainer for studios to attach trailers for their upcoming tentpole releases to next month's biggest release (nay, one of the year's biggest releases), The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey. Surprisingly, though, we're now hearing that Paramount's trailer for Star Trek Into Darkness WON'T be attached to the first installment in director Peter Jackson's second Middle-earth trilogy (though, the same may not be true for the extended IMAX preview).
However, Hobbit co-financier Warner Bros. is (not surprisingly) going to include a new trailer for its Superman franchise reboot Man of Steel (which is also arriving in IMAX 3D next year, like the Star Trek sequel). Moreover, 20th Century Fox will use the film as a launch pad for the first footage from its next X-Men movie, The Wolverine.
Now, obviously, there's a built-in audience for any Superman movie, but for all the talk from Snyder and co-screenwriter David S. Goyer about how Man of Steel is a 'serious' and 'naturalistic' rendition of the character's universe, there's not been enough shown to fully illustrate just what that means (for your average moviegoer, that is). Moreover, the indication seems to be that Sndyer is changing course from his stylized adaptations of the 300 and Watchmen comic books by instead favoring a stripped-down aesthetic for Superman (a la Batman Begins, Dark Knight). Hence, if that is the case, it does make the issue of Man of Steel receiving both a 3D and IMAX post-conversion all the more questionable (as was discussed on last week's SR Underground Podcast).
The Wolverine is another comic book project with a question mark hanging over its head right now. Case in point: director James Mangold (3:10 to Yuma, Knight and Day) has described the film as a Noir tale with an unvarnished visual style, but it's nonetheless receiving a 3D post-conversion; likewise, Hugh Jackman previously described Logan's new adventure as a 'standalone picture', but Mangold has since revealed that the film takes place in the aftermath of X-Men 3 (a.k.a. The Last Stand). Needless to say, the first trailer won't address all those issues (or related ones, like how Wolverine might connect to Bryan Singer's X-Men: Days of Future Past), but it's an important starting point, all the same.
We will see how the general attitude about Man of Steel and Wolverine changes (or doesn't) next month, once their respective new trailers arrive. Of course, if neither comic book title is of interest to you, there's a good chance a trailer for Guillermo del Toro's Pacific Rim could also be arriving with Jackson's Hobbit flick (along with new theatrical previews for other hotly-anticipated 2013 releases…).
UPDATE: Since this story broke, James Mangold has Tweeted:
Contrary to reports, there will be no trailer on THE HOBBIT for THE WOLVERINE. You will get a glimpse early 2013. I promise.
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey hits theaters on December 14th, 2012.
Man of Steel opens in theaters on June 14th, 2013.
The Wolverine attacks theaters on July 26th, 2013.
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This is among the worst non-sequitur fallacies I've seen. Too bad the Gazette along with Ruthie on the SCOTUS doesn't like our constitution, but at least spend a couple of dollars on a real writer who can make more than an adolescent rant. It might occur to an observant person that public financing for abortion is illegal since Roe, and abortificants funded by the public through insurance policies forced on it by ACA are just that. Obama regularly ignores law and constitution and has done so again in the ACA. Fact is, health insurance premiums shouldn't be wasted on recreational sex, and if equality was truly the liberal interest--and not voting blocks--condoms would also be included "free"
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Steve Keller might be right; a more liberal candidate might beat Cuomo, given that degree of extremism exists in NY. But I am astonished at his assertion that Cuomo is moderate--compared to what? I felt like I was reading this letter in the Twilight Zone. Cuomo likes to portray himself as moderate. He supports that by portraying moderate conservatives as being the extremists, but it is Cuomo who is a radical lefty. If we had someone more liberal, NY would fall off the cliff at the extreme end of the left side.
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You are absolutely right about this. We need a lot more outcry, and maybe ganging up on Verizon and other internet carriers. They must be making money the way it is or they wouldn't have taken up the business.
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Posted on December 15 at 7:58 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Good column Fred. It's interesting that Obama has made insurance more expensive for smokers even though statistics show their average lifetime medical costs are less than non-smokers. But those who engage in stupid, unproductive behavior that carries more risk of aids than smoking does cancer will pay nothing more for their unhealthy high risk behavior. Nor will gluttons and all those reproductive righters catching and spreading STDs. Who would have thought in America we all would have to pay for others recreational sex.
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Since the property required no repairs--it was the city's main and valve portion--there is no justification for making him replace the line in, unless the city goes to every homeowner with a 3/4 inch line and makes them replace it. The city owes him the cost for their incompetence, and perhaps beating up a Republican by the working-together-works gang.
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Posted on December 10 at 8:21 p.m. (Suggest removal)
The idea that people are using brick and mortar as a showroom before buying online is little more than an anecdotal conclusion. I'm sure it happens, but what happens more is the brick and mortar carries a pathetic sampling of products--they all have the same thing as well--and one is driven to the internet to find the selection they are looking for. I'd much rather buy at a local store and take what I need home with me right now, instead of the pain in the neck order filling on line and waiting for delivery. As for saving on sales tax, the delivery costs remove any supposed savings there; many things cost as much or more when shipping is added in. Adding in the sales tax will make internet sales more expensive than brick and mortar.
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This notion of moving to center I so often hear is really a taunt to move to the left. Liberals have gone so far left today that what they think is conservative center is actually pretty far to the left. The euphemism in the writer's letter, "women's reproductive freedom" is a prime example. Conservatives support a women's right to choose to reproduce any time she wishes and they support her choice to say no at any time. That is center. What is left is forcing everyone else to pay for recreational sex or to allow late term abortions that are not due to threatening medical issues. New York Republicans are not going to balance the left wing extremists with left wing conservatism--or some such oxymoron. Two reasons the Democrats are winning: Few good conservatives will blow the money to run and -- the reason for the first -- Conservatives are fleeing the state to center and right states. There aren't enough real Republicans left here. We are becoming a continent of nations, divided by progressives rushing to the least common denominator.
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I am astonished to see this being done now. As if traffic isn't snarled enough with the ill timed Erie Blvd and Scotia bridge work, which has been made worse by shutting off lower State St. I didn't think those in charge could be any more stupid. Do these people ever think about what they are doing?
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Posted on October 25 at 6:48 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Judith must live on another planet for her letter is not only a twist of truth but mostly absence of fact. There must have been a letter more veracious than this one in the paper's mailbox.
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Posted on September 7 at 2:35 p.m. (Suggest removal)
It smelled rotten right from the start. To give Dimitriadis a choice between caring for her father or keeping her job is about as mean spirited as I've seen, just plain nasty. And I haven't heard complaints about Dimitriadis' work as I used to hear about some other assessors we've had. So we have an assessor who has kept the peace, one of the few employees with an excuse to live outside the city that any considerate person could live with, and McCarthy wants to play by the letter of the rule (for the first time?). And he wants to overpay--compared to our neighbors--an unproven replacement. If I were writing this book, the next chapter would have the mayor telling his new yes-man to raise property values. This can be done by picking the highest values in the range of value developed in an appraisal. That has been a problem in the past, basing value on sales that were statistical outliers. The higher property values will lower the tax rate, which will make it easier for McCarthy to raise taxes. His only hope for a city with few prospects.
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BANGERZ will be Miley's fourth studio album following her mixed reviewed venture, 'Can't Be Tamed'. On June 3 Miley released 'We Can't Stop', the lead single for her upcoming fourth album. In the United States, the track debuted at number 11 on the Billboard Hot 100 with first-week sales of 214,000 downloads. Additionally it entered the Hot Digital Songs component chart at number three. The single has since reached 'Platinum' in the United States and Australia.
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I put up a padres/giants watch for other people to go to, wildcard is in play too.
I expect the Cards to win at least two of three, tonight looks like a sure win since it's 6-2 in the eighth inning. Carp pitching should be a win. Lohse's first start back from the DL (in the MLB anyway) is kind of a question mark, especially since he's going against the pretty decent Dempster.
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Well I picked up the new Sox & Martin cuds today at my LHS and they still didn't fix the rear wheel well flares on the body, Come on guys !!!, the kit has all the parts for the stock version except the stock tires and stock decals,. The drag parts are nice, the carbs for the tunnel ram are a little flat, the decals give you a complete side red decal for the paint, the slicks to me are undersized, they left off any keystone mag wheels detail on the rims caps, Side windows would have been nice since no pro stock is allowed to run without them.But Revell fix the rear wheel flares issue, at the prices we are paying for these kits now we shouldn't have these glaring errors,just saying. Anyway I still think in some regards the Johan Sox & Martin Pro Stock Cuda kit is better detailed in some areas and it's 44 years old. I'm not saying the Revell kit is bad at all, they just did what was economical to get a pro stock kit out of their new tooling with just a few drag parts and decals added.
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I'm a bit new to the Montana, and with the help of this thread and the Wiki, I'm coming along.
Just today I accessed the Montana internal memory, uSD card and tried to delete all items. Then I loaded a couple segments of City Nav, made a route, and took the GPS out for a test ride. I had the GPS hooked up to my Sena head set, but I wasn't getting any turn by turn audio. (previously I was the day before). I took a look in settings and noticed that there are no longer any voice choices in the Voice Language menu. I also realized that the default Profiles, and the Vehicle options are no longer available. The menus for them are still there, but there aren't any selections to choose from.
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I was using 4.9, then went back to 4.7 to see if that would help. It didn't. So I went back to 4.9.
Web Updater doesn't give me any options to install any voices, or any further features.
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Ideally what I would like to do is get the unit back to factory new software settings with all features that should be included as such.
Any help would be great.
Thanks, everyone!
Edit: I am researching the issue further, and for the life of me I can't figure out how to reinstall the base map on the GPS. City Navigator is on there just fine, but the base map isn't. I looked at the unit with JaVaWa, and it said that the unit didn't have a base map installed (which we already know) and that the GPS probably wouldn't operate properly without it. "Well how would one go about getting that base map back on the GPS, JaVaWa?" Any ideas?
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Burma's opposition leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, must be one of the most beautiful people ever to win a Nobel peace prize. Now in her sixties, she still possesses an astonishing elegance and style: in a recent BBC interview, she wore a fetching primrose yellow sweater, and her dark hair was pinned in a pony-tail with an ornamental clasp. The most striking thing about her, though, is her voice, which is quite low and sure and British accented; and what she says with it — again and again she has risked her life by speaking out against Burma's military regime.
Just today Suu Kyi confirmed that she would run for parliament in April, representing a suburb of Yangon (which is Burma's largest city). The by-election will be the first time that her party, the National League for Democracy, enters the political process. The extent to which this is progress may be dubious. A military government has ruled Burma since 1962, and pro-military candidates dominate the parliament's upper and lower house, as the WSJ points out.
Suu Kyi has said she thinks she will see democracy in Burma in her lifetime, but in that BBC interview she added a remark that could seem cryptic: "But then of course I don't know how long I'm going to live. But if I live a normal lifespan, yes."
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Advanced fuels for nuclear fusion — of which deuterium and 3He mixture is the leading candidate — could reduce tritium inventory, neutron fluence, structural damage, and activation in future reactors as well as allow for direct energy conversion. The feasibility of D-3He fusion is assessed based on recent developments in the areas of fuel resources, fusion and plasma physics, magnetic and inertial reactors, space propulsion, reactor safety, and waste disposal. It appears that D-3He fusion is not well suited to the conventional tokamak design (β ∼ 10%) because of excessive synchrotron loss and closed field topology. High-beta and/or non-Maxwellian plasma configurations are promising but at present lack a sufficient experimental database to predict reactor-relevant behavior. Space propulsion appears to be a most advantageous application of D-3He fusion.
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- はい hai: yes
- ええ ee: yes (less formal)
- うん un: yeah (less formal)
- そう sou: so, like that
- いいえ iie: no
- いえ ie: house
- いや iya: nope (less formal)
- ううん uun: oh, no (less formal)
違います chigaimasu: That's wrong. (formal) 違う chigau: That's wrong. (informal) 分かりません wakarimasen: I don't know. (formal) 分からない wakaranai: I don't know. (informal) 分かんない wakannai: I don't know. (very informal)
- どうですかね dou desu ka ne: Hmm...I wonder. (formal)
- どうかなあ dou ka naa: Hmm...I wonder. (informal - masculine)
- どうかしら dou kashira: Hmm...I wonder. (informal - feminine)
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- The basic words for "yes" and "no" are はい hai and いいえ iie. However, as you see above, there are many variants, as well as other common responses to yes/no questions.
- Comparing はい hai, ええ ee, and うん un
- はい hai is a general purpose way of saying "yes" and can be used in almost any situation.
- ええ ee is a more formal way of saying "yes" and also carries a somewhat feminine connotation.
- うん un is a more casual way of saying "yes" and is closer to the English word "yeah".
- Comparing いいえ iie, いえ ie, いや iya, and ううん uun
- いいえ iie is a general purpose way of saying "no" and can be used whenever a clear-cut "no" is needed.
- いえ ie is a non-slurred version of the above.
- いや iya is a less formal version and also caries a masculine connotation.
- ううん uun is informal and connotes a bit of surprise. It could be translated as "oh, no" or "certainly not".
As a statement, そう sou can be used by itself as an interjection or as a na-adjective followed by です desu or だ da. As a question, そう sou can be used by itself with a rising tone, or followed by か ka or ですか desu ka. It means "that is right," or "that is so," and is used as an affirmative answer to a question.
- Interjection examples
学生ですか。 Gakusei desu ka?
- そうです。 Sou desu.
- Translation
- Are you a student?
- Yes, I am.
- アメリカ
人? Amerika-jin?
- そうよ。 Sou yo.
- Translation
- Are you American?
- Yes, I am.
看護士です。 Kangoshi desu.
- そうですか。 Sou desu ka?
- Translation
- I'm a nurse.
- Are you really?
簡単な 宿題だ。 Kantan na shukudai da.
- そう? Sou?
- Translation
- This is simple homework.
- Is it?
- Na-adjective examples
弁護士さんですか。Bengoshi-san desu ka?
- そうです。Sou desu.
In Japanese, はい hai is similar to the English word "yes", while いいえ iie is similar to "no". The use of the Japanese terms, however, does not correspond exactly to that of the English words. More precisely, はい hai in Japanese means, "I agree with you", or, "It is correct." Thus, English speakers may struggle with the proper Japanese answer to negative questions (e.g. Don't you ...? or ..., don't you?). Specifically, はい hai answers a negative question in the sense that corresponds to the English "No". Likewise, いいえ iie answers a negative question in the sense that corresponds to the English "Yes".


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