Treated gem, also called Treated Stone, genuine gem material whose colour has been artificially enhanced or produced to increase the value of the stone; staining, heat treatment, and irradiation are among the treatments used.
A good jade vendor who offers superior product should be able to produce a certificate of authenticity, which validates the quality and value of the stone you are interested in.
"The value of the stones may not be great but the design is," Mr. Tiesenhausen said.
To determine the geomechanical properties (dry unit weight, water absorption, effective porosity, P-wave velocity, uniaxial compressive strength, slake durability index, capillary water absorption, Bohme abrasion value and Schmidt hammer rebound value) of the stones comprehensive laboratory research was carried out.
-- Excerpt from "The Value of Higher Education Made Literal" THE STONE A wave of scientists and philosophers are working in the areas known as "embodied cognition" and "the extended mind".
When that day happens, 180 million miles away from home, in Gale Crater or elsewhere on the planet of Mars, for at least a moment, they might think back to their own simpler time when, on the shoreline of some body of water, they first learned the value of the perfect stone.
Festival makes the charge and spirit points of Rei and Kei always at max value while Miku has max value of the sacred stone meter.
Hitcham's bequest had meanwhile become entangled in the law courts and work did not begin on the poorhouse until the late 1650s, by which time the internal buildings of castle were being broken up for the value of their stone; the chapel had been destroyed in this way by 1657.
Rich dismantled the castle for the value of its stone, primarily between 1551 and 1575, and the castle, now thoroughly ruined, passed through Rich's descendants.
But Jerry Gault, above, a crabber from Florida who now lives in Beaufort, S.C., knows the value of fresh stone crab claws.
We investigate the prognostic value of pancreatic stone protein/regenerating protein (PSP/ reg) concentration in patients with severe infections.
