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| January 6, 2013 |
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| January 6, 2013 |
- Labs do not meet the first week of class.
They begin the following week. Monday, Jan. 21 is a University
holiday, so students in the Monday section are asked to attend the
first lab during one of the other lab sections that week.
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| December 20, 2012 |
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| December 20, 2012 |
- 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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| December 20, 2012 |
- Welcome to the Spring 2013 Gems and Gem Minerals class!
From this home page you can navigate to course information, lecture
handouts, on-line lecture notes and much more. Most
announcements will henceforth be posted on the UT Blackboard site
for this class.
- The spinning ball and stick model above shows the arrangement of carbon atoms in diamond. It and other minerals
are easily visualized with
Xtaldraw, now downloadable as
Drawxtl, a
powerful (and free) graphics program that displays crystal
structures.
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