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1. Opal
   Opal is an amorphous, or non-crystalline form of silica with the formulae SiO2ùnH2O and a relative hardness of 6. It is always a secondary mineral, found lining and filling cavities in igneous and sedimentary rocks where it has been deposited by hot waters. The ordinary varieties are common but the...
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2. OPAL
   Older People with Active Lifestyles - a demographic grouping.
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3. opal
   [n] - a translucent mineral consisting of hydrated silica of variable color
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4. opal
   any of a large group of glassy,translucent silicas of various colors:some varieties,used as semiprecious stones,include the common opal,the black opal. Category: Various industries and crafts
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5. Opal
   O'pal noun [ Latin opalus : confer Greek ..., Sanskrit upala a rock, stone, precious stone: confer French opale .] (Min.) A mineral consisting, like quartz, of silica, but inferior to quartz in hardness and specific gravity. &...
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6. opal
   <chemical> A mineral consisting, like quartz, of silica, but inferior to quartz in hardness and specific gravity. ... The precious opal presents a peculiar play of colours of delicate tints, and is highly esteemed as a gem. One kind, with a varied play of colour in a reddish ground, is called ...
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7. opal
   noun a translucent mineral consisting of hydrated silica of variable color; some varieties are used as gemstones
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8. Opal
   • (n.) A mineral consisting, like quartz, of silica, but inferior to quartz in hardness and specific gravity.
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9. opal
   silica mineral extensively used as a gemstone, a submicrocrystalline variety of cristobalite (q.v.). In ancient times opal was included among the ... [3 related articles]
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10. Opal
    Opal is a English girl name. The meaning of the name is `Precious Jewel` Where is it used? The name Opal is mainly used In English.How do they say it elsewhere? Opaline ( In English) From Old English. Opal doesn`t appear In 2007`s top-1000 name list.The last time Opal appeared In the top-1000 wa...
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11. Opal
    [band] Opal were an American alternative/psychedelic band in the 1980s. They were part of the Paisley Underground musical style. The group formed in the mid-`80s under the name Clay Allison, featuring guitarist David Roback (previously of Rain Parade), bassist Kendra Smith (from Dream Syndic...
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12. Opal
    [software] The Garden album cover ...
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13. OPAL
    [software] The Open Physics Abstraction Layer (OPAL) is an open source realtime physics engine API similar to PAL. It is currently supported only by ODE, but can be extended to run off of other engines. OPAL is free software, released under both the LGPL and the BSD license. It was originall...
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14. Opal
    [disambiguation] An opal is a gemstone. Opal may also refer to: ==People== ===Fictional characters=== ==Places== ==Research facilities== ==Computing== ==In the military== ==Other== ...
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15. Opal
    [fuel] Opal is a variety of low-aromatic 91 RON petrol developed in 2005 by BP Australia to combat the rising use of petrol as an inhalant in remote indigenous Australian communities. Though more expensive to produce, requiring a $0.33/litre Federal subsidy, a 2006 report found it would like...
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16. Opal
    [programming language] OPAL (OPtimized Applicative Language) is a functional programming language first developed at the Technical University of Berlin. ==Example program== This is an example OPAL program, which calculates the GCD recursively. Signature file: Implementation file: ...
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17. Opal
    1. A DSP language. ['OPAL: A High Level Language and Environment for DSP boards on PC', J.P. Schwartz et al, Proc ICASSP-89, 1989]. 2. The language of the object-oriented database GemStone. ['Making Smalltalk a Database System', G. Copeland et al, Proc SIGMOD'84, ACM 1984, pp.316- 325]. 3. A simulat...
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18. Opal
    Opal is an amorphous form of silica related to quartz, a mineraloid form, not a mineral. 3% to 21% of the total weight is water, but the content is usually between 6% to 10%. It is deposited at a relatively low temperature and may occur in the fissures of almost any kind of rock, being most commonl...
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19. OPAL
    (Orbiting PicoSat Launcher) A small Stanford University satellite, launched from the JAWSAT payload adaptor on Jan. 26, 2000, and which in turn deployed six even smaller picosatellites. Two of these picosatellites were tethered and built by the Aerospace Corporation for ARP...
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20. opal
    Opal. Credit: Wikipedia A cryptocrystalline variety of porous hydrated silica, deposited from aqueous solution in all kinds of rocks, and also formed by replacement of other minerals. Opals are variously colored; the best gem varieties are translucent, with milky or pearly opalescence and iride...
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21. opal
    opal (ō'pul) , a mineral consisting of poorly crystalline to amorphous silica, SiO2·nH2O; the water content is quite variable but usually ranges from 3% to 10%. Common opal is usually colorless or white, but it may be gray, brown, yellow, or red; the color is due to fine-grained imp...
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22. opal
    Form of hydrous silica (SiO₂.nH₂O), often occurring as stalactites and found in many types of rock. The common opal is translucent, milk-white, yellow, red, blue, or green, and lustrous. Precious opal is opalescent, the characteristic play of colours being caused by close-pack...
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23. OPAL
    Older People with Active Lifestyles - demographic group.
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24. Opal
    [given name] Opal is a feminine given name derived from the name of the gemstone opal. The gemstone is the birthstone for October. Its name is derived from the Sanskrit उपल or upala, which means "jewel. It came into use along with other gemstone names during the late Victorian era. Opa...
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25. Opal
    [armoured personnel carrier] The Opal``-I``` is a multi-purpose fully amphibious armoured personnel carrier developed and produced by HSW S.A.. APC is a development of MT-LB that was produced in HSW on licence. Major changes are with reworked nose section and propellers for better in water s...
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