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Abalone pearl jewelry is very popular in New Zealand and Australia, in no minor part due to the marketing and farming efforts of pearl companies.
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Abalone and is
Abalone ( or ; via Spanish, from the ), is a common name for any of a group of small to very large edible sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Haliotidae.
Abalone is also farmed in Australia, Hawaii, Canada, Chile, France, Iceland, Ireland, Mexico, Namibia, New Zealand, South Africa, Thailand, and the United States.
Abalone have long been a valuable food source for humans in every area of the world where a species is abundant.
Abalone may only be taken using breath-hold techniques or shorepicking ; scuba diving for abalone is strictly prohibited.
This is most often used in wargaming, though many abstract strategy games such as Abalone, Agon, hexagonal chess, and connection games use hexagonal layouts.
Abalone is an award winning two-player strategy board game designed by Michel Lalet and Laurent Lévi in which each player is represented by marbles of opposing colors.
Because it is boring for games to be drawn out indefinitely, serious Abalone players tacitly agree to play aggressively.
Abalone is a Molecular Dynamics program for folding simulations with explicit or implicit water models.
The novel is set in the fictional town of Abalone, Arizona, the inhabitants of which epitomize ordinary Americans as they are simultaneously backhandedly celebrated and lovingly pilloried for their emergent reactions to the wonders of magic and of everyday life.
Abalone is a kind of shellfish.
Davenport is also home to American Abalone, which is a producer of farm raised California Red Abalone.
It is the dawn of the 20th century, and an elderly Chinese man rides a jackass into Abalone, Arizona, his only visible possession a fishbowl occupied by an innocuous-looking fish.
Though quiet, Abalone is not peaceful ; wealthy rancher Clinton Stark ( Arthur O ' Connell ) has inside information that a railroad is coming to town, and he is scheming to buy up the place while the land is cheap.
Abalone and New
Abalone, or Pāua are Mabe pearls unique to New Zealand waters and are commonly referred to as ' Blue Pearls '.
Abalone and Australia
* Haliotis roei, a species of Abalone shell from Western Australia and South Australia
Abalone and no
Abalone have no operculum.
Abalone and efforts
The State of California has introduced an Abalone Recovery Management Plan to guide conservation efforts.
Abalone and .
Abalone are also severe hemophiliacs as their fluids will not clot in the case of a laceration or puncture wound.
Two highly endangered White Abalone.
Abalone may only be taken from April to November, not including July.
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( 2012 ) Abalone: Worldwide Haliotidae.
These groups include the Abalone Alliance, Clamshell Alliance, Institute for Energy and Environmental Research, Nuclear Information and Resource Service, and Physicians for Social Responsibility.
Abalone can be played by three people ( or more ) using the same board with fewer marbles, each in three different colours.
Abalone was invented in 1987 by Laurent Lévi and Michel Lalet.
Abalone was published in 1990 and has sold more than 4, 5 million units since.
To the West was, Abalone Shell Mountain.
And far to the West, on Abalone Shell Mountain, lived, a hermaphrodite, White Shell Girl.
To the West they re-created, Abalone Shell Mountain.
pearl and jewelry
The meat ( foot muscle ) of abalone is used for food, and the shells of abalone are used as decorative items and as a source of mother of pearl for jewelry and other decorative items.
The value of the pearls in jewelry is determined by a combination of the luster, color, size, lack of surface flaw and symmetry that are appropriate for the type of pearl under consideration.
* Mother of pearl from many seashells including species in the family Trochidae, Turbinidae, Haliotidae, and various pearly bivalves, has often been used in jewelry, buttons, etc.
Since she was known to be a staunch devotee of Sri Ranganayaki, every Friday and Tuesday, Sri Ranaganayaki was being decorated with a big pearl studded nose ring and other precious jewelry.
SS is more commonly used for apparel means, while PP ( or pearl plate ) is used for jewelry.
pearl and is
Poetry was for him ...' a morbid secretion ', as the pearl is for the oyster.
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the word baroque is derived from the Portuguese word " barroco ", Spanish " barroco ", or French " baroque ", all of which refer to a " rough or imperfect pearl ", though whether it entered those languages via Latin, Arabic, or some other source is uncertain.
Bubble tea, also known as pearl tea or boba tea, is a tea-based drink invented in tea shops in Taichung, Taiwan, during the 1980s.
He is probably best known for his three-strand faux pearl necklace worn by Barbara Bush to her husband's inaugural ball.
Each of the gates is made of a single pearl, and there is an angel standing in each one.
In some regions couscous is made from coarsely ground barley or pearl millet.
In the Sahelian countries of West Africa, such as Mali and Senegal, pearl millet is pounded or milled to the size and consistency necessary for the couscous.
In Finnish, the month is called helmikuu, meaning " month of the pearl "; when snow melts on tree branches, it forms droplets, and as these freeze again, they are like pearls of ice.
* 1893 – The first cultured pearl is obtained by Kokichi Mikimoto.
In popular iconography, the parrot is coloured white and usually seen hovering to the right side of Guanyin with either a pearl or a prayer bead clasped in its beak.
The valuable pearl is the " deal of a lifetime " for the merchant in the story.
A less common interpretation of the parable is that the merchant represents Christ, and the pearl represents the Church.
The pearl itself is a beautiful, single entity, formed through suffering in the heart of the oyster ( in the same way that believers endure lack of wealth or comfort ) and like the Church, will be put on display in a coming day.
Unlike precious stones which must be cut and polished to reveal their clarity and beauty, the pearl is perfect as it comes from the oyster.
In the Gnostic Acts of Peter and the Twelve, found with the Gospel of Thomas in the Nag Hammadi library, the travelling pearl merchant Lithargoel is eventually revealed to be Jesus.
A pearl is a hard object produced within the soft tissue ( specifically the mantle ) of a living shelled mollusk.
Just like the shell of a mollusk, a pearl is made up of calcium carbonate in minute crystalline form, which has been deposited in concentric layers.
The ideal pearl is perfectly round and smooth, but many other shapes of pearls ( baroque pearls ) occur.
A nacreous pearl is made from layers of nacre, by the same living process as is used in the secretion of the mother of pearl which lines the shell.
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