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| Domain | Definition |
Mining | A gem variety of opal that exhibits a brilliant play of delicate colors by diffraction of light from close-packed 150- to 300-mm spheres of cristobalite-tridymite. The color of the bulk material may be black orwhite. CF:common opal. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: PRECIOUS OPAL |
| Specialty definitions using "PRECIOUS OPAL": water opal. (references) |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
precious opal | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-i-l-o-o-p-p-r-s-u" | |
-1 letter: polariscope. | |
-2 letters: popularise. | |
-3 letters: acropolis, caprioles, episcopal, oilpapers, peculiars, populaces, supercoil, supercool. | |
-4 letters: apocopes, appliers, auricles, calipers, calories, capriole, carioles, carousel, carpools, clappers, clippers, copperas, couloirs, couplers, crappies, cripples, croppies, epicarps, oilpaper, opercula, papulose, peculiar, pelorias, perilous, poaceous, polarise, popsicle, populace, porpoise, precious, precools, prolapse, propolis, proposal, replicas, sapropel, scopulae, scrapple, sloppier, specular, spiculae. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 52 45 43 49 4F 55 53      4F 50 41 4C |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01010010 01000101 01000011 01001001 01001111 01010101 01010011 00100000 01001111 01010000 01000001 01001100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P R E C I O U S   O P A L |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 0052 0045 0043 0049 004F 0055 0053      004F 0050 0041 004C |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5052393743495553249503546 |
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