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Lustre (British English) or luster (American English; see spelling differences) is the way light interacts with the surface of a crystal, rock, or mineral. The word traces its origins back to the Latin lux , meaning "light", and generally implies radiance, gloss, or brilliance.
Staffordshire pottery jug, c. 1815. Lustreware or lusterware (the respective spellings for British English and American English) is a type of pottery or porcelain with a metallic glaze that gives the effect of iridescence.
The lustre chantant (literally "singing chandelier") or musical lamp was invented by Frederik Kastner. It was a large chandelier with glass pipes of varying lengths each illuminated and heated by an individual gas jet. A keyboard allowed the player to turn down individual jets; as the glass tube cooled, a note was produced.
The French lustre, from Italian lustro, can also be used in English to mean a chandelier hung with crystals, or the glass pendant used to decorate such chandelier. [9] The use of words for indoor lighting objects can be confusing, and a number of terms like lustres, branches, chandeliers and candelabras were used interchangeably at various ...
Lustre (treaty), a secret treaty between France and members of the UKUSA Agreement for cooperation in signals intelligence; Luster (textiles), a property of textiles make them appearing bright, shiny and lustrous; Lustre, English-language form of Latin lustrum – a period of 5 years; Lustre, a chandelier or a glass pendant used in chandelier
RICHARD POHLE/POOL/AFP via Getty Images. Today, the Prince of Wales, 42, embarked on a solo outing, leaving wife Kate Middleton and the rest of the Wales clan at home. He paid a visit to ...
In popular usage, shungite-bearing rocks are sometimes themselves referred to as shungite. Shungite is subdivided into bright, semi-bright, semi-dull and dull on the basis of its lustre. [11] Shungite has two main modes of occurrence, disseminated within the host rock and as apparently mobilised material.
Echoing France's Napoleon Bonaparte, U.S. President Donald Trump on Saturday took to social media to signal continued resistance to limits on his executive authority in the face of multiple legal ...