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Article: Impurities add value to mineral.(News)
The Journal (Newcastle, England);  August 30, 2004 ;     376 words ...Fluorspar, also known as fluorite, is calcium fluoride (CaF). Fluorspar is found in granite, it fills cracks and holes in sandstone and it is found in large deposits in limestone. Pure fluorspar is colourless, but a variety of impurities give fluorite a rainbow of colours, including green, purple,

Article: ROCK BOUGHT AS SOUVENIR IS ACTUALLY NEW ...
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA);  March 21, 1996 ;     334 words ...A brilliant blue rock bought on vacation as a cheap souvenir is a mineral new to science, geologists confirmed this week. ``The mineral has the most intense blue that we have ever seen Gordon Cressey, deputy head of the mineralogy department at the Natural History Museum in London, said yesterday.

Article: MARS MAY ONCE HAVE BEEN WETTER\ ROVER SPIES TELLTALE ...
The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH);  January 31, 2004 ;     700+ words ...Byline: Andrew Bridges Associated Press PASADENA, Calif. -- NASA's Mars rover Opportunity spied hints Friday of a mineral that typically forms in water -- a finding that could mean the dry and dusty Red Planet was once wetter and more hospitable to life. That is the very question Opportunity and

Article: Apple Extends Mac OS Up-To-Date Program to Power ...
PR Newswire;  September 15, 1997 ;     700+ words ...Qualifying Customers Can Receive Mac OS 8 Upgrade for U.S. $9.95 CUPERTINO ... Computing and UMAX customers. Through the Mac OS Up-To-Date program, Apple, Power ... and UMAX customers who buy qualifying Mac OS-based computers on or after June 22 ...

Article: MAC OS X CAN RUN OLDER ...
The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY);  April 16, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... operating system. That leaves a lot of Mac OS users wondering what they should do. The ... Basically, they don't have to do a thing. Mac OS software will continue to be available ... too. But hasn't Apple stopped work on Mac OS? That's true, but that doesn't mean ...

Article: Mac OS 8's about-face. (Apple shifting toward ...
Macworld;  October 1, 1996 ;     700+ words ... ... what you've read before about the new Mac OS and its fountain of features. Forget Apple's promises to have it to you this year. Mac OS 8, formerly known as Copland, is at least ... what Apple has promised (see "The New Mac OS Unveiled," July 1995). Apple is understandably ...

Article: Mac OS 9.(Product Information)
Macworld;  December 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ... ... the trusty Mac operating system. But this time there's a bit of uncertainty on the horizon: Mac OS X. With Mac OS X due early next year, is Mac OS 9 nothing but an interim step you should ignore? Is Apple still committed to the original Mac ...