What's the difference between danburite and topaz?
Danburite
Definition:
(n.) A borosilicate of lime, first found at Danbury, Conn. It is near the topaz in form.
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Topaz
Definition:
(n.) A mineral occurring in rhombic prisms, generally yellowish and pellucid, also colorless, and of greenesh, bluish, or brownish shades. It sometimes occurs massive and opaque. It is a fluosilicate of alumina, and is used as a gem.
(n.) Either one of two species of large, brilliantly colored humming birds of the Topaza, of South America and the West Indies.
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(1) The aim of this study was to compare the effects upon marginal leakage of a number of dentine bonding agents: Gluma, Scotchbond, Topaz and an experimental material when used with a posterior composite resin, Occlusin.
(2) TOPAZ generates a narrative summary of the temporal events found in the electronic medical record of patients receiving cancer chemotherapy.
(3) We describe a program, called TOPAZ, that uses this three-step methodology.
(4) Buffett's MidAmerican Energy Holdings will take over Topaz Solar Farm, which is expected to produce enough power to run 160,000 homes when it is up and running in 2015.
(5) As an example of this approach, the author describes a program called TOPAZ that contains two temporal models that represent different temporal features of the clinical domain.
(6) Perched on the top deck of a Croatian sailing boat just outside Split, I was about to launch myself into the topaz blue of the Adriatic below.
(7) The problem of achieving satisfactory interaction between blood and prosthesis was not resolved in these studies, but we were sufficiently encouraged by the hemodynamic effects to look into the possibility of working with the temporary support system initially proposed by Moulopoulos, Topaz, and Kolff [3].
(8) Clones carrying the white and topaz eye color genes have been isolated from genomic DNA libraries of the blowfly Lucilia cuprina using cloned DNA from the homologous white and scarlet genes, respectively, of Drosophila melanogaster as probes.
(9) MidAmerican sealed the deal for Topaz on Wednesday, a day after the seller, First Solar, failed to secure a US government loan guarantee for the project.
(10) A unique feature of TOPAZ is its use of numeric and symbolic techniques to perform different temporal reasoning tasks.
(11) Greg Abel, chief executive officer of MidAmerican, said: "[Topaz] demonstrates that solar energy is a commercially viable technology without the support of governmental loan guarantees."
(12) Populational distribution of five genetic immunoglobulin markers (light chain allotype L1 and C gamma-allotypes H2, H3, H6 and H8) in minks of different coat color (Sapphire, Standard and Topaz) was studied.
(13) "Topaz-1" unit is intended for cleaning of immunological plates.
(14) The Topaz model 515 (Vitatron B.V.) is a dual sensor rate responsive pacemaker for single chamber stimulation.
(15) Restriction site and restriction fragment length polymorphisms involving both the white and topaz gene regions are found within and between populations of L. cuprina.