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  2. Cerrillos Turquoise Mines - Wikipedia

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    The Cerrillos Turquoise Mines are Ancestral Puebloan turquoise mines located in the Cerrillos Hills, 20 miles (32 km) southwest of Santa Fe, New Mexico. Archeologists believe that most of the turquoise found at Chaco Canyon was mined in the Cerrillos Hills. Many modern Pueblo people claim to have ancient rights to these mines. [1]

  3. Candle - Wikipedia

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    The liquid wax is hot and can cause skin burns, but the amount and temperature are generally rather limited and the burns are seldom serious. The best way to avoid getting burned from splashed wax is to use a candle snuffer instead of blowing on the flame. A candle snuffer is usually a small metal cup on the end of a long handle.

  4. Turquoise - Wikipedia

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    Turquoise is an opaque, blue-to-green mineral that is a hydrous phosphate of copper and aluminium, with the chemical formula Cu Al 6 (PO 4) 4 8 ·4H 2 O.It is rare and valuable in finer grades and has been prized as a gemstone for millennia due to its hue.

  5. Liquid3 - Wikipedia

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    Liquid3. Liquid 3 (also known as Liquid Trees) is a clean energy photobioreactor project whose purpose is to replace the function of trees in heavily polluted urban areas where planting and growing real vegatation is not viable. The project was designed by the Institute for Multidisciplinary Research at the University of Belgrade and was ...

  6. Liquid light show - Wikipedia

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    Liquid light show. Layers of colored mineral oil and alcohol move over the projector lens and produce changing color patterns. Liquid light shows (or psychedelic light shows) [not verified in body] are a form of light art that surfaced in the early 1960s as accompaniment to electronic music and avant-garde theatre performances. They were later ...

  7. Thermochromism - Wikipedia

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    Thermochromic inks or dyes are temperature sensitive compounds, developed in the 1970s, that temporarily change color with exposure to heat. They come in two forms, liquid crystals and leuco dyes. Leuco dyes are easier to work with and allow for a greater range of applications.

  8. Liquid breathing - Wikipedia

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    Because liquid breathing is still a highly experimental technique, there are several proposed approaches. Total liquid ventilation. Although total liquid ventilation (TLV) with completely liquid-filled lungs can be beneficial, the complex liquid-filled tube system required is a disadvantage compared to gas ventilation—the system must incorporate a membrane oxygenator, heater, and pumps to ...

  9. Phase transition - Wikipedia

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    In chemistry, thermodynamics, and other related fields like physics and biology, a phase transition (or phase change) is the physical process of transition between one state of a medium and another. Commonly the term is used to refer to changes among the basic states of matter: solid, liquid, and gas, and in rare cases, plasma.