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  2. List of retronyms - Wikipedia

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    Gen I (Chevrolet Small Block) Used to distinguish versions of the Chevrolet V6 and V8 engine from the 1997-present LS engines. GM "old-look" transit bus The GM old look did not originally have a name, but in 1959, a new design was released and was called the new look. After this many people started calling the older design the Old Look. Ground ...

  3. Soapstone - Wikipedia

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    A block of talc. Petrologically, soapstone is composed predominantly of talc, with varying amounts of chlorite and amphiboles (typically tremolite, anthophyllite, and cummingtonite, hence its obsolete name, magnesiocummingtonite), and traces of minor iron-chromium oxides. It may be schistose or massive.

  4. Quartz - Wikipedia

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    Quartz is, therefore, classified structurally as a framework silicate mineral and compositionally as an oxide mineral. Quartz is the second most abundant mineral in Earth's continental crust, behind feldspar. [9] Quartz exists in two forms, the normal α-quartz and the high-temperature β-quartz, both of which are chiral. The transformation ...

  5. Engineered stone - Wikipedia

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    The private Spanish company Cosentino brand Silestone and the public Israeli company Caesarstone are the most recognizable brands for quartz, as well as Totem Quartz, an Iranian company which has a huge market in the middle east and Central Asia. Gulfstone, an Oman-based company, is the only producer of engineered quartz stone in the GCC.

  6. How to Clean Quartz, Granite, Marble, and Butcher Block ... - AOL

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    The post How to Clean Quartz, Granite, Marble, and Butcher Block Countertops appeared first on Reader's Digest. ... which Otero says will “ruin the smooth, shiny surface that makes these kinds ...

  7. Rhyolite - Wikipedia

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    The mineral assemblage is predominantly quartz, sanidine, and plagioclase. It is the extrusive equivalent of granite. Its high silica content makes rhyolitic magma extremely viscous. This favors explosive eruptions over effusive eruptions, so this type of magma is more often erupted as pyroclastic rock than as lava flows.

  8. Category:Quartz - Wikipedia

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  9. Anchor Stone Blocks - Wikipedia

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    The stone blocks saw little popularity until 1880, when Friedrich Adolf Richter, a wealthy businessman who had built a small empire in Rudolstadt, purchased the rights to the process for 1,000 marks, plus about 4800 marks (including 800 marks still owing) for the tooling and machines being used to produce them. He developed a series of sets of ...