What's the difference between aquamarine and sapphire?
Aquamarine
Definition:
(n.) A transparent, pale green variety of beryl, used as a gem. See Beryl.
Example Sentences:
(1) Martin McAdam, chief executive of Aquamarine Power, one of a number of Edinburgh-based marine energy firms, said that choosing the city was "tremendous news" for his industry, which has been boosted by a series of green energy investment decisions by major global firms including Mitsubishi, Gamesa and Samsung Heavy Industries.
(2) "The GIB will build on this lead and enable businesses such as Aquamarine Power to leverage the significant private sector capital which will allow the UK's green energy sector to flourish," he said.
(3) Examples of this approach include Alstom who have invested in Brightsource (utility scale solar thermal) and Tidal Generation (tidal power); ABB is working with Aquamarine (wave power) and Trilliant (smart grid); Siemens with Tendril and a number of other smart grid companies; Monsanto with biofuels company Sapphire Energy .
(4) Martin McAdam, chief executive of Aquamarine, said publicising marine energy was crucial, as was accelerating investment in the industry.
(5) The bright sun and aquamarine water looked vaguely tropical, but the grimaces and boiled lobster colour of the competitors were a more accurate guide to temperature.
(6) Imagine a bald Jimmy Savile painted aquamarine, contorting his mouth into a gaping downturned maw.
(7) Her Majesty came in civvies, sporting a smart white silk brocade coat and flower trimmed hat, finished off with an enormous Brazilian aquamarine.
(8) Martin McAdam, chief executive officer of wave energy company Aquamarine Power, said there had been no consultation.
(9) "As a business, Aquamarine Power has been firmly neutral on the matter of independence," he said.
(10) The competition will be open to existing designs and established marine energy firms, including the Edinburgh-based firms behind the "sea snake" wave machine, Pelamis, and the "oyster" wave machine, Aquamarine power.
(11) It's a stretch that has at least 243 beaches of unparalleled beauty , and the kind of limpid aquamarine saltwater that has sent poets into raptures.
(12) After a series of commercial failures in Scotland’s nascent marine power industry, including the collapse of two wave power firms, Pelarmis and Aquamarine, Nova Innovation’s announcement was applauded by environmental groups.
(13) We ain’t been winning anything,” said Henry L Irvin Sr, an air force veteran in an aquamarine T-shirt bearing the slogan “Katrina – I am a survivor”.
(14) zumbido Slovenia The Soca valley, Kobarid From the small town of Kobarid you can follow the amazingly aquamarine Soca river upstream to the Kozjak waterfall.
(15) He is turned out nattily: an aquamarine shirt is co-ordinated with leather Oxford shoes; his hair spills out of a black newsboy cap and he wears dazzling white socks, as he always does.
(16) Rooms are small but striking – with a don’t-try-this-at-home colour scheme of dark chocolate, aquamarine and off-whites.
(17) Also to use wave power is a more powerful version of Aquamarine's existing Oyster machine , in which a lever hinged at the ocean floor is pushed back and forth.
(18) Aquamarine, which is behind a yellow near-shore device known as Oyster, is making about 30 staff redundant .
(19) The job losses were “a consequence of the considerable financial, regulatory and technical challenges faced by the ocean energy sector as a whole,” according to Aquamarine’s chief executive, John Malcolm.
(20) The study was carried out on samples of cotton textiles for children, two were dyed beige and aquamarine , one was white.
Sapphire
Definition:
(n.) Native alumina or aluminium sesquioxide, Al2O3; corundum; esp., the blue transparent variety of corundum, highly prized as a gem.
(n.) The color of the gem; bright blue.
(n.) Any humming bird of the genus Hylocharis, native of South America. The throat and breast are usually bright blue.
(a.) Of or resembling sapphire; sapphirine; blue.
Example Sentences:
(1) CW Nd:YAG light transmitted by fiber optic cable and sapphire crystal was applied transsclerally to the ciliary body of pigmented and albino rabbits.
(2) Diana of the sapphire eyes was rated more perfect than Botticelli's Venus and attracted Bryan Guinness, heir to the brewing fortune, as soon as she was out in society.
(3) However, the forward transmission of Nd-YAG energy through the sapphires varied (SMTR, 85%; MTR, 83%; MTRL, 75%; OS, 54%; LT, 69%).
(4) In order to avoid the drawbacks of the cutting end of the bare optic fibers, it may be covered with sapphire optics which conducts well laser energy.
(5) A contact artificial sapphire, developed for use with the Nd:YAG laser, allows the performance of open surgery (laser probe) and has endoscopic applications for the treatment of gastrointestinal bleeding (micro laser tip) and tumors (micro laser rod).
(6) A spokesman for the Metropolitan Police had said: "Officers from Sapphire are investigating an allegation of rape which happened on 6 May in the west London area.
(7) Post-mortem aortic specimens of normal wall, lipomatous and calcified plaques were exposed to both continuous wave lasers (argon, neodymium-YAG 1064 nm) coupled to hot-tipped or sapphire tipped fibres and pulsed lasers (Excimer 193 nm, CO2, erbium-YAG).
(8) We report our first 20 cases of peripheral laser angioplasty using an optic fibre with contact sapphire tip.
(9) Contact probes made from synthetic sapphire crystal, designed for general laser surgery, are currently being evaluated for use in laser angioplasty.
(10) Apple has entered into a joint venture in the US with GT Advanced to build plants and furnaces able to produce sapphire in industrial quantities for a “critical component” that it said in trade documents would be shipped abroad for assembly.
(11) However, variation in the thermal and optical properties of sapphires from different sources has been demonstrated.
(12) The old warehouses that edge the small pebble beach and sapphire-blue water are still owned by the same families, but they have now been converted into a rather special hotel.
(13) The authors undertook an investigation to evaluate the efficacy and complications of performing internal sclerostomy with the synthetic sapphire contact neodymium:YAG (Nd:YAG) laser compared with standard external thermal sclerostomy.
(14) From a sapphire and diamond brooch to a humble bag of salt, the Queen picked up an eclectic haul of official gifts during the year she became Britain’s longest-reigning monarch.
(15) The sapphire home button of the iPhone 5S resisted all scratches from both sandpapers.
(16) Complicated hemangiomas of the hand or upper extremity have been resected in eight patients with use of the YAG laser with sapphire scalpels.
(17) An Nd-YAG laser and an optical fiber delivery system with a sapphire tip serving as a contact probe were used for PTLA.
(18) In conclusion, our results show that CO2 perfusion facilitates more effective laser ablation of atheromatous plaque than saline perfusion by the sapphire probe with the continuous wave Nd-YAG laser.
(19) Transvitreal pars plana sclerotomy using the contact Nd:YAG laser with a sapphire probe was performed on a group of rabbit eyes and compared with a similar procedure performed with a Ziegler knife.
(20) Results revealed that the adherence to target tissue and tissue damage were more apparent with metal caps than those with sapphire tips.