More recently, pure synthetic Moissanite has been made from thermal decomposition of the preceramic polymer poly ( methylsilyne ), requiring no binding matrix ( e. g. cobalt metal powder ).

Moissanite has several applications.

Moissanite, also a synthetic stone, is another example.

Moissanite originally referred to a rare mineral discovered by Henri Moissan having a chemical formula SiC and various crystalline polymorphs.

Moissanite, in its natural form, is very rare.

Moissanite gemstones are sometimes marketed under the trademark " Berzelian ," a reference to the work of Berzelius on SiC.

In 1905, this mineral was named Moissanite, in his honor.

Though not actually crewel embroidery, it has that look with its over-stitched raised pattern in blue, pink, bronze and gold and a sauterne background.

What does Tri-State actually want to do, now that it has the meters under franchise and certain phases of its piping system in the `` patent applied for '' stage??

The amateur is closely related to the collector, who is actually no more than the amateur who has taken to the field.

When written in Devanagari, Vedic Sanskrit has an alphabet of 53 letters, including the visarga mark for final aspiration and special letters for kš and jñ, though one of the letters is theoretical and not actually used.

However, as has been pointed out by Alexis Manaster Ramer and Paul Sidwell ( 1997 ), Strahlenberg actually opposed the idea of a closer relationship between the languages which later became known as " Altaic "..

This has caused much controversy whether the Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel is actually a " Nobel Prize "

Because ending the game is optional, and a player may not realize that he can end it, it is unethical to say " good game ", or in any other way indicate that the game could be ended, until after a player actually has ended the game.

For comparison, Sirius has an absolute magnitude of 1. 4 which is greater than the Sun's absolute visual magnitude of 4. 83 ( it actually serves as a reference point ).

ASP, Inc. is actually a brand that manufactures this type of weapon ( the ASP tactical baton ), and the brand has come to casually refer to all telescopic batons.

The passage in question has been represented in the modern literature either as claiming that Crantor actually visited Egypt, had conversations with priests, and saw hieroglyphs confirming the story or as claiming that he learned about them from other visitors to Egypt.

Access to clean water has actually decreased in the world's poorest nations, often those that have not been as involved in globalisation.

Research from the University of Botswana has found that the common practice of overstocking cattle to cope with drought losses actually depletes scarce biomass, making ecosystems more vulnerable.

Their accuracy has been called into question, however ( e. g., by Chauncey Brewster Tinker in The Translations of Beowulf, a comprehensive survey of 19th-century translations and editions of Beowulf ), and the extent to which the manuscript was actually more readable in Thorkelin's time is unclear.

However, Holden-recovering from his injuries during the fight-later finds the truth: Rachael has been killed by Tyrell agents, and the " Rachael " who escaped with Deckard was actually Sarah.

It has been suggested by United States government officials that " box-cutter knives " were used in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks against the United States, though the exact design of the knives actually used is unclear.

Although prior to the catastrophic collapse of the towers, the phrase " a good day to bury bad news " ( not actually used by Moore ) has since been used to refer to other instances of attempting to hide one item of news behind a more publicised issue.

Winding up of companies is in the jurisdiction of the Courts which can take a decade even after the Company has actually been declared insolvent.

Many practical problems are actually " easy ", so the SAT solver can easily find a solution, or prove that none exists, relatively quickly, even though the instance has thousands of variables and tens of thousands of constraints.

As noted above, biomedical engineering has only recently been emerging as its own discipline rather than a cross-disciplinary hybrid specialization of other disciplines ; and BME programs at all levels are becoming more widespread, including the Bachelor of Science in Biomedical Engineering which actually includes so much biological science content that many students use it as a " pre-med " major in preparation for medical school.

Daniel Amneus, however, argues that when Ross and Angus bring King Duncan's praise, and the news that Macbeth has been granted the title of Thane of Cawdor, the " greater honor " he ascribes to Macbeth is actually his title as Prince of Cumberland.

However, Dr Susan Ford has argued quite convincingly that callitrichids are actually a dwarfed lineage.

Further, the necessity to serve up a dubiously justified happy ending, although expected by audiences, actually has another effect of heightening the sense of falseness and contrived stories, underpinning the public's loss of belief in virtually anything any mass media says.

This practice can lead to the controversial question of which research group actually discovered an element, a question that has delayed naming of elements with atomic number of 104 and higher for a considerable time.

The Analects, the main source of the Confucianism of Confucius, actually has little to say on the matter of filial piety and some sources believe the concept was focused on by later thinkers as a response to Mohism.

The advent of online billing and the easy availability of credit card services has made it relatively easy for almost anyone to maintain an account in good standing, regardless of where they actually live.

The arithmetic mean may be misinterpreted as the median to imply that most values are higher or lower than is actually the case.

SAR performance limits mean that the fastest IP router ATM interfaces are STM16-STM64 which actually compares, while POS can operate at OC-192 ( STM64 ) with higher speeds expected in the future.

The far aircraft is actually slightly higher than the near aircraft to make them appear in-line to the audience.

Franchise taxes in Delaware are actually far higher than in most other states which typically charge little or nothing beyond corporate income taxes on the portion of the corporation's business done in that state.

: While advocates of the deprogramming position have claimed high rates of success, studies show that natural attrition rates actually are higher than the success rate achieved through deprogramming.

While people expected elements with higher atomic number to form from neutron bombardment of lighter elements, nobody expected neutrons to have enough energy to actually split a heavier atom into two light element fragments, and it was thought still more unlikely that slow neutrons could accomplish such a task.

And, unlike her first disco hits, the track was not pitched up to make it faster and to render Gaynor's recorded voice in a higher register than that in which she actually sang.

Ebbinghaus was determined to show that higher mental processes could actually be studied using experimentation, which was in opposition in the popular held thought of the time.

However, in tests conducted on rhesus monkeys, the analgesic potency of hydrocodone was actually found to be higher than that of morphine.

Accordingly, hail is actually less common in the tropics despite a much higher frequency of thunderstorms than in the mid-latitudes because the atmosphere over the tropics tends to be warmer over a much greater depth.

The new and bigger company would actually face higher costs than competitors because of these technological and managerial differences.

Road safety in Russia is poor with road accident deaths per million population higher than all countries in the G8 and the other BRIC countries, although the absolute number is actually less than China, India and USA.

Planning agencies, ministries and enterprises all adapted and bargained with each other during the formulation of the plan as opposed to following a plan passed down from a higher authority, leading some economists to suggest that planning did not actually take place within the Soviet economy and that a better description would be an " administered " or " managed " economy.

However, it remains an expensive area in which to own property, and the average price of single-family homes on campus is actually higher than in Palo Alto.

As with other painters, the reproduction rights for prints were often worth more than the canvas, and a painting with its rights still attached may have been sold to Gambart for £ 10, 000 in 1874 ; without rights it was sold again in 1903, when Alma-Tadema's prices were actually higher, for £ 2, 625.

Because of the out-of-date weather report, the crew believed their altitude to be higher than it actually was, and could not react properly to bring the MiG-15 out of its spin.

One is the fact that temperature is the average kinetic energy, implying that some nuclei at this temperature would actually have much higher energy than 0. 1 MeV, while others would be much lower.

There he discovers that the leader of the Vorticons is actually his school rival Mortimer McMire ( whose IQ is a single point higher than Keen's ).

Skeptics question whether SCI is actually scientific According to proponents, practicing the TM technique can lead to higher levels of consciousness and supernormal effects, including the Maharishi Effect.

In such a case, the artificially overvalued money is preferred in exchange, because people prefer to save rather than exchange the artificially demoted one ( which they actually value higher ).

This pattern was different than the pattern of " outlying slums " and " suburban ghettos " found in many cities outside of North America and Western Europe, where central urban areas actually had higher real estate values.

While Bennett and Miller were already pursuing traditional careers, Cook had an agent due to his having written a West End revue for Kenneth Williams ; as a result, Cook's agent negotiated a higher weekly fee for him to participate, although by the time the agent's fee was deducted, Cook actually earned less than the others from the initial run.

This technique utilizes a single CCD with a Bayer filter but actually moved the physical location of the sensor chip on the focus plane of the lens to " stitch " together a higher resolution image than the CCD would allow otherwise.