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PRECIOUS OPAL

Specialty Definition: PRECIOUS OPAL

DomainDefinition

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.

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Crosswords: PRECIOUS OPAL

Specialty definitions using "PRECIOUS OPAL": water opal. (references)

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: PRECIOUS OPAL

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

precious opal

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: PRECIOUS OPAL

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.

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Alternative Orthography: PRECIOUS OPAL


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)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010000 01010010 01000101 01000011 01001001 01001111 01010101 01010011 00100000 01001111 01010000 01000001 01001100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#80 &#82 &#69 &#67 &#73 &#79 &#85 &#83 &#32 &#79 &#80 &#65 &#76

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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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Expressions: Internet
3. Anagrams
4. Orthography
5. Bibliography


  

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