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| October 2, 2007 |
- Scores for the second hour exam are now posted
on Blackboard.
- We begin faceting next week and will continue
to do so for the next four weeks in lab. Please see the
important notice on Blackboard about requirement for faceting.
- The project
description has been modified - a new option requires only one
faceted gemstone for the project.
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| August 26, 2007 |
- There are no laboratory sections this week.
Lab begins next week in Rm. 3.120. Because Monday, Sept. 2, is a
holiday, I ask that those of you who have the Monday lab section
(Mon. 1-3 PM) please attend one of the other labs next week. Times
and days for all lab sections are on the
syllabus; choose one and
attend. If you are unable to, please see me or email Miriam (miriam10@mail.utexas.edu),
the T.A., to arrange a make-up.
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| August 26, 2007 |
- The
Featured
Article in the August, 2005
Lapidary Journal is about this class! Jamie Janczak, a
former student turned free-lance writer, writes about
faceting and her experiences in lab.
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| August 26, 2007 |
- Welcome to the Fall 2007 Gems and Gem Minerals class! From this home page you
can navigate to course information, lecture handouts, on-line lecture notes and much more.
Messages here are updated frequently with lecture and lab announcements - check
here often for class news.
- The spinning ball and stick model above shows the arrangement of carbon atoms in diamond. It and other minerals
are easily visualized with
Xtaldraw,
a powerful (and free) graphics program
that displays crystal structures.
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