She found herself wishing an old wish, that she had told Doaty she was running away, that she had left something more behind her than the loving, sorry note and her best garnet pin.

The application of X-ray crystallography to mineralogy began with the structure of garnet, which was determined in 1924 by Menzer.

The first athletic group at the University was formed in 1885, with garnet and grey becoming the official team colours.

The solution was to imprint a pattern of tiny magnetic bars onto the surface of the garnet.

The most important archeological find was the 1st Century Desborough Mirror which is now in the British Museum as is an Anglo-Saxon necklace found in the Paddock Lane area of the town which comprises gold beads, a gold cross and a red garnet.

Red garnets and gold made an attractive contrast of colours, and for Christians the garnet was a symbol of Christ.

The top central stone of the front plate is a triangular sapphire which replaces a famous stone, now lost, which was known as the Waise ( i. e., the ' Orphan ', because of its uniqueness ), probably a large white opal with a wine-red fire or possibly a singularly brilliant garnet or red zircon and the subject of much legendary medieval lore.

The Chi was jeweled with one garnet on each arm.

Around 2009, there was a significant discovery of demantoid and andradite garnet in Madagascar.

Garnet and glass doublets were first used around 1850 when it was noted that molten glass would adhere to garnet.

In 1849, Nordenskjold examined what was known as " Ural's chrysolite " and discovered that it was a rich green variety of andradite garnet.

In 2009 the Staffordshire hoard, a major hoard of over 1, 500 fragments of 7th and? 8th century metalwork pieces, mostly gold and military in nature, many with gold and garnet cloisonné inlays of high quality, was found by a metal-detectorist in Staffordshire, then in Mercia.

The rarest of these is the blue garnet, discovered in the late 1990s in Bekily, Madagascar.

It took some time to find the perfect material, but they discovered that garnet turned out to have the right properties.

This area is situated north of the Main Central Thrust ( MCT ) and is made up of bedrocks of granites, garnet mica schist, quartz biotite schist, kyanite schist, augen gneiss and banded augen gneiss.

The team colors of garnet, orange and silver were taken from the three college football teams most popular in the area ; garnet from the Florida State Seminoles, orange from the Florida Gators, and silver from the pants worn by the Georgia Bulldogs.

Grossular garnet from Kenya and Tanzania has been called tsavorite.

A highly sought after variety of gem garnet is the fine green Grossular garnet from Kenya and Tanzania called tsavorite.

Gold, silver and garnet grave goods from the Anglo-Saxon ship burial at Sutton Hoo ( 1939 ) and late Roman silver tableware from Mildenhall, Suffolk ( 1946 ).

These can include zircon, tourmaline, rutile ( hence ZTR ), garnet, magnetite, or other dense mineral derived from the source rock.

Pyrope has tradenames some of which are misnomers ; Cape ruby, Arizona ruby, California ruby, Rocky Mountain ruby, and Bohemian garnet from the Czech Republic.

Demantoid has been called the " emerald of the Urals " from its occurrence there, and is one of the most prized of garnet varieties.

The name grossular is derived from the botanical name for the gooseberry, grossularia, in reference to the green garnet of this composition that is found in Siberia.

Thus shales may pass into cordierite rocks, or may show large crystals of andalusite ( and chiastolite ), staurolite, garnet, kyanite and sillimanite, all derived from the aluminous content of the original shale.

Shellac comes in many warm colors, ranging from a very light blond (" platina ") to a very dark brown (" garnet "), with many varieties of brown, yellow, orange and red in between.

The company will use modern strip mining techniques to extract chromite, zircon, and garnet from local sands.

A Russell garnet, from a pegmatite mined in the 19th century.

The ' bead ' is made of gold, garnet and blue glass dating to the late sixth or early seventh century with the workmanship suggesting that it belonged to a woman of wealth or high status such as a ' princess ' and dates from the 6th-7th centuries ( 500-699 AD ).

The spit runs in from west to east, and is made from fine golden sand-as Cape Farewell to the west of the spit is mostly composed of late Cretaceous quartz sandstones, i. e. silica but with traces of other heavy minerals, garnet, ilmenite, magnetite and pyroxene.

The emerald and garnet studded dagger is Entreri's signature weapon, which he possesses from his earliest appearance, a brief appearance at the end of the novel The Crystal Shard.

When the color inclines to a violet tint, the stone is often called Syriam garnet, a name said to be taken from Syriam, an ancient town of Pegu ( now part of Myanmar ).

Chlorite pseudomorph after garnet from Michigan ( size: 3. 5 x 3. 1 x 2. 7 cm )

* January's birthstone is the garnet which represents constancy.

Older materials can be dated using zircon, apatite, titanite, epidote and garnet which have a variable amount of uranium content.

Laser lithotripsy is another technique, which involves the use of a holmium: yttrium aluminium garnet ( Ho: YAG ) laser to fragment stones in the bladder, ureters and kidneys.

A shale may become a dark argillaceous hornfels, full of tiny plates of brownish biotite ; a marl or impure limestone may change to a grey, yellow or greenish lime-silicate-hornfels or siliceous marble, tough and splintery, with abundant augite, garnet, wollastonite and other minerals in which calcite is an important component.

Numerous precious objects were found, including a richly ornamented sword, a torse-like bracelet, jewels of gold and garnet cloisonné, gold coins, a gold bull's head and a ring with the inscription (" of Childeric the king "), which identified the tomb.

The groundmass mineralogy, which more closely resembles a true composition of the igneous rock, contains forsteritic olivine, pyrope garnet, Cr-diopside, magnesian ilmenite and spinel.

The extracted coticule in Vielsalm owes its very fine abrasive properties to spessartine, which is a particular variety of garnet.

Other gemstones have been used since, including garnet ( which is too soft ) and diamonds.

Pyroxenites are related ultramafic rocks, which are composed largely of orthopyroxene and / or clinopyroxene ; minerals that may be present in lesser abundance include olivine, garnet, plagioclase, amphibole, and spinel.

These were white convertibles which previewed several 1991 features, including a flame red interior ( instead of garnet red ), white bucket seats, white 16 inch wheels, and the cup holder.

Almandine, Fe < sup > 2 +</ sup >< sub > 3 </ sub > Al < sub > 2 </ sub > Si < sub > 3 </ sub > O < sub > 12 </ sub >, is the ferrous iron end member of the class of garnet minerals representing an important group of rock-forming silicates, which are the main constituents of the Earth's crust, upper mantle and transition zone.

Geologically very little is known of the first division which consists of rocks such as quartzites, marbles and various types of micaceous schists and gneisses which a few sporadic occurrences of garnet, graphite, iron, kynite, mica and vein quartz.

Her garnet red elemental gelade are on the back of both her hands which she covers with arm length gloves.

Other notable examples include the ferrites, strontium titanate SrTiO < sub > 3 </ sub > ( which, despite its name, contains Ti < sup > 4 +</ sup > cations and not the TiO < sub > 3 </ sub >< sup > 2 -</ sup > anion ), yttrium aluminum garnet Y < sub > 3 </ sub > Al < sub > 5 </ sub > O < sub > 12 </ sub >, and many more.