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Tech/Engineering - Mining & Minerals / Gems / Prospecting report | | Spanish term or phrase: lapidación | Classification of gems
"Forma: Debe ser tal que permita una correcta lapidación con el menor desperdicio de material".
Does this mean something like setting? |
| | | lapping | Explanation:
How are Gems Cut and Polished?Jump to lapping: Lapping is very similar to grinding and sanding, except that it is performed on one side of a rotating or vibrating flat disk known as ...
sawing - grinding - sanding - lapping
www.tradeshop.com/gems/howcut.html
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INTRODUCTION TO LAPIDARY - PANSY D. KRAUS - 1987 -
LAPPING GEM MATERIALS Lapping is a method of grinding and polishing the flat ... Lap units were devised because it is difficult to obtain a completely flat ...
books.google.com/books?isbn=0801972663... |
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 Cinnamon Nolan
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14 mins confidence:   peer agreement (net): +2 (a correct) lapidary technique
Explanation:
In other words, a technique that properly cuts the stone. You want to avoid "lapidation" because in English that means "stoning someone to death".
For tumbling of rocks, as a lapidary technique, a plastic or rubber barrel is loaded with consignment of rocks, all of similar, or the same hardness, ...
www.lapidaryclubofohio.org/definitions.htm
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