Lucite: A clear, strong plastic that can be molded and carved, popular in the 1940's for ladies purses and jewelry.
Luster: A reference to the brightness of an object that shines with reflected light rather than producing its own.
Lucite
Popular in the 1940's for ladies purses and jewelry, lucite is a clear, strong plastic that can be molded and carved.
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Granite Lucite - A beautiful variation of lucite which is normally opaque, but with 'chunks' or small pieces of lucite in varying colors that emulate the look of granite. It comes in a wide variety of colors.
Lucite Jewelry - Valuable And Collectible Plastic From The Past
Costume Jewelry - Glamorous And Fashionable At A Low Cost
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LUCITE
Lucite is a clear (transparent), strong plastic (a thermoset acrylic resin) that was patented by the DuPont company in 1941. Lucite has a specific gravity of 1.19. Although it is clear, it can be colored.
Lucite
A synthetic material that is denser and heavier than plastic and is usually finished no seams or knobs that are tell tale signs of injection or molding.
Confetti lucite is transparent plastic with glitter or other small pieces of material within it. Whimsical bangles, earrings, pins, necklaces and other jewelry have been made from confetti lucite.
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Confetti Lucite: Transparent plastic with glitter or other material embedded within it.
Contra Luz Opal: Transparent opals that are usually faceted and will show iridescence when light shines through the stone.
Reverse-carved lucite
Reverse-carved lucite is lucite (a transparent plastic) that is carved on the back side. The incised areas are often painted, highlighting the carving.
Plastics, including Lucite and Bakelite, were an inexpensive way to add color, readily available, and easy to manipulate through carving and polishing. Animal forms, perennially popular, were natural outlets for the addition of a Lucite cabochon.
Also Pollucite, Zeolite group, Analcite
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Crystallography: cubic, tetragonal trisoctahedron (trapezohedron) transparent to translucent
Colors: colorless, white, greenish, reddish
Luster: glassy
Hardness: 5 to 5.5
Fracture: subconchoidal ...
Some commonly-known acrylics are lucite and plexiglas. The bangle above is made of confetti lucite. AdamantineAdamantine means having a luster like that of a diamond.
Gilgi , Hunza, and Shigar (Gilgit district) - Aquamarine, topaz (golden and white), emerald (new find), ruby, pollucite, rutile quartz, morganite, apatite, spinel, and pargasite ...
Make your choice from beaded, mesh, lucite, or jewelry
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Made of a lucite core with a silver mirror plate finish, followed by many layers of colored lacquer.
The bead illustrations, bead pictures and descriptions provided in this glossary focus on glass bead and crystal bead shapes but generally speaking they are equally valid for lucite, ...
Never buy gems that are sealed in plastic or Lucite boxes. Be cautious whenever you are making any purchase over telephone or through internet.
Some translucent stones include diamond, zircon, emerald, rock crystal, and ruby. Plastics like lucite can also be transparent. In the confetti lucite bangle above, the glitter within the lucite is visible.
The earliest plastics, like vulcanite, Bakelite, celluloid and lucite were used for a wide variety of purposes, including among them gem simulation.
Acrylics are a type of thermoplastic, and include transparent and opaque in varied colors. Some commonly-known acrylics are lucite and plexiglas. The bangle above is made of confetti lucite.
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Description of jewelry containing a large unfaceted stone made of Lucite. Popular in the 1940s, many of these pieces were whimsical creatures with the stone forming the belly of the figure.
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A piece of jewelry that has a center made from glass (or clear lucite).
jet
A carbon mineral (lignite coal) that, when cut into facets, has the stunning appearance of a black diamond.
Lucite and other plastics can also be translucent. The photo to the left shows a translucent blue chalcedony stone -- see how the light is passing through the stone on the right, making the orangey glow.
Badges in Lucite
Movie prop badges
Identification cards
Credential cases
"Badge patches," including the National Park Service "arrowhead" patch and US Forest Service patch
Raid jackets
Emergency vehicle lighting and sirens ...
They have almost a pearly sheen to them. They are available in glass and Lucite, a very hard plastic. These are sometimes mistakenly referred to as "cat's eye" when offered in brown or a darker color.
Intaglio A reverse carved piece. The cameo or picture is carved from behind the glass, lucite, or celluloid and shows through to the front.
Du Pont de Nemours & Co. introduces acrylic plastic, trade name 'Lucite'; also patents nylon fiber
Double pronged hinged (dress) clip introduced (c.) ...
Acrylic - Acrylics are a type of thermoplastic, and can be transparent, translucent, or opaque. Some commonly-known acrylics are lucite and plexiglas.
However, amazonite is available in different shades of green such as bluish green and yellow green. Its estimated hardness in the Mohs scale is 5 to 6. The minerals which are found along with amazonite or its associates are quartz, pollucite, ...
The interior of the case is lined with a camel-colored faux suede lining and each compartment comes with a removable cushion. The luxurious chest comes with a lock and tasseled key. The lid is attached by two brass hinges, and has a Lucite window ...
But I remember searching for the GE Pollucite Quarry in Buckfield, Maine in the old days before it was rediscovered. I was within 40 feet of it and still did not see it until I almost fell into the workings.
Acrylic beads are manufactured using a process known as suspension polymerization, and are generally less expensive and more durable than metal or glass beads. Some commonly-known acrylics are lucite and plexiglas ...
Oxford County deposits have produced colorless, facet-grade phenakite from which small to medium stones have been cut. Small to medium sized, colorless to slightly pinkish stones have been cut from pollucite recovered in Oxford County.
in their ease of polishing, particularly in the case of faceted stones, so gemcutters are often very inventive in trying new combinations of polishing agents and polishing surfaces -- often tin, tin-lead, lead, leather, felt, pellon, wood, or lucite ...
the piercing is placed as low as possible on the inside of the lip, but is known for discomfort, since the flat backs are right against the gums at all times.
Lucite: Kind of plastic used in large gauge body jewelry.
Plexiglas, Lucite, plastic, wood, or water.[18]
33P; a beta-emitter (0.25 MeV) with a half-life of 25.4 days. It is used in life-science laboratories in applications in which lower energy beta emissions are advantageous such as DNA sequencing.
 See also: Jewel, Color, Jewelry, Metal, Stone
  
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