Sentence examples for various precious from inspiring English sources

Particularly important in such trade were fine textiles, silk, gold and other metals, various precious and semiprecious stones, and spices and aromatic products.

A former fund-raiser who spent two decades on Wall Street and has consulted to hedge funds, Ms. Hornig, 55, has designed razzle-dazzle pieces in 18-karat gold, sterling silver and various precious and semiprecious stones, under the trademark Philanthropy Is Beautiful, since 2003.

Various precious metals and their corresponding oxides have been proposed as electrocatalysts to reduce the charge voltage of Li O2 batteries.

The $130 Defender has a little brother, the $90 Protector, and both strap to the front of your body and include a number of straps and pockets for your various precious items.

However, adding proper additives, such as Ru among various precious metals (Ru, Rh, Pt, and Pd) and alkaline earth metals (Mg, Ca, Sr, and Ba) with the appropriate loading (5 wt.%) effectively suppressed coke formation.

Hollow silica nanospheres containing various precious metal clusters such as Rh, Ir and Ru were synthesized by solubilizing corresponding metal ammine complexes into NP-6/cyclohexane reversed micelle system.

Sulfur ligands in the polymer cages are well known to be stabilizers for various precious-metal NPs.

The grafted sulfur moieties make Cage- co-PMMA a universal template for the synthesis of various precious-metal NPs.

Key mineral resources include various types of precious and semi-precious stones, and Madagascar currently provides half of the world's supply of sapphires, which were discovered near Ilakaka in the late 1990s.

The official, Jesse Chacón, said Venezuela, which has vast deposits of various minerals and precious stones including gold, diamonds and nickel, was also seeking deposits of other natural resources and was taking aerial photos to determine what it should exploit.

Various kinds of precious metals were added to the Ni-Y2O3-stabilized zirconia (Ni-YSZ) cermets, and the relation between steam reforming of CH4 and the electrochemical activity as a solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) anode was investigated.