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The Copenhagen Journal of Asian Studies, 2022 This article discusses how the gemstone jade mediates guanxi (‘personal relationships’), and how guanxi mediates jade trade in China. Outlining some affective, spiritual, moral and somatic meanings and efficacies of jade, especially as a gift, the ...
Henrik Kloppenborg Møller
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Overview of Gemstone Resources in China
Crystals, 2021 Gemstones are minerals of gem qualities used for adornment and decoration with the attributes of beauty, durability and rarity. Traditionally, although China has been regarded as the most important source for nephrite, over the past decades, a large ...
Xiao-Yan Yu +9 more
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Geology and mineralogy of gemming terrains of Sri Lanka [PDF]
Bulletin of the Geological Society of Finland, 1985 Gemming in Sri Lanka is carried out in river valleys and on hill slopes underlain by high grade Precambrian metasedimentary rock suites. The principal gem mineral, corundum, is mined from assemblages rich in garnet, spinel, topaz, tourmaline and zircon ...
K. Dahanayake, A.P. Ranasinghe
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Fuzzy Analytical Hierarchy Process Method to Determine the Quality of Gemstones
Advances in Fuzzy Systems, 2018 The selection of quality gemstones requires a special ability to select and assess the quality of gemstones to be traded. The diversity of types of gemstones and consumers becomes an obstacle in itself when the knowledge and ability of individuals to ...
Mochammad Sobandi Dwi Putra +3 more
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BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine, 2009 Background Gemstones have been in use as part of alternative and complementary medicine for years. However, our understanding of the perceived healing powers of gemstones is limited.
Qidwai Waris +2 more
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Production of Radioactive Gemstones
, 2023 The possibility of making precious stones from radioactive waste is being considered. Vitrified and cemented radioactive waste (RW) is considered as an artificial rock belonging to aluminosilicates and calcites. Two methods are proposed for the manufacture of radioactive gemstones from RW and their subsequent storage with the possibility of sale ...
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Journal of Awareness, 2022 The placebo effect can be explained as a response other than the specific influence of a treatment which comes from the psychosocial forces surrounding the treatment. This effect can be observed all over the world when people use healing stones. In this study, the perception of healing stones was investigated using the questionnaire technique.
Yusuf Arif Kutlu +2 more
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Magical Objects, Magical Writing: Amulets Across the Ages
Martor, 2023 This note focuses on recent discussions on gemstone amulets from Late Antiquity through insights offered in two contributions to the volume Textual Amulets from Antiquity to Early Modern Times: The Shape of Words (Theis and Vitellozzi 2022).
Hajnalka Tamás
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LE CHEVALIER, LA FEMME ET LE DIABLE. LES GEMMES MAGIQUES ET LE TESTAMENT DE SALOMON [PDF]
Diversitate si Identitate Culturala in Europa, 2010 Fifty six magical gemstones discovered in Egypt and dating from the 3rd century CE represent Solomon as a triumphant horse rider piercing and killing by his lance a lying female demon, probably the famous Lilith.
Dr. Ştefan COLCERIU
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Crystal structure of Cr-bearing Mg3BeAl8O16, a new polytype of magnesiotaaffeite-2N′2S
Acta Crystallographica Section E: Crystallographic Communications, 2016 The crystal structure of a new polytype of magnesiotaaffeite-2N′2S, ideally Mg3BeAl8O16 (trimagnesium beryllium octaaluminium hexadecaoxide), is described in space-group symmetry P-3m1. It has been identified in a fragment of a mineral sample from Burma (
Thomas Malcherek, Jochen Schlüter
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