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 Translation for 'Opal' from English to Slovak
NOUN   an opal | opals
opálový {adj}opal [attr.]
mineral.
opál {m}
opal
elektr.
opálová žiarovka {f}
opal bulb
mliečne sklo {n}opal glass
opálové sklo {n}opal glass
baníctvo
opálová baňa {f}
opal mine
opálový prsteň {m}opal ring
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Usage Examples English
  • Opalite is a trade name for synthetic opalescent glass and various opal and moonstone simulants.
  • The Flame Queen Opal is perhaps the most famous of all opals. It is the best-known example of “eye-of-opal”, an eye-like effect created when opal in-fills a cavity.
  • The Koroit opal field is known for the very distinctive type of boulder opal that is found in its mines.
  • Opal mining has been the predominant mining industry within the Shire.
  • Biogenic silica (bSi), also referred to as opal, biogenic opal, or amorphous opaline silica, forms one of the most widespread biogenic minerals.

  • Goodridge) (1887 – 9 September 1974) was an opal and mica miner who worked at Lightning Ridge and Coober Pedy in South Australia and Alice Springs in the Northern Territory of Australia.
  • The Fire of Australia opal is a 998 gram uncut opal mined by Walter Bartram in 1946 at the Eight Mile field in Coober Pedy, South Australia. Although rough-cut, it is polished on two sides.
  • The micrometre-scale spheres that make up precious opal exhibit some X-ray diffraction patterns that are similar to that of cristobalite, but lack any long-range order so they are not considered true cristobalite.
  • Alex Mendelssohn migrated from war-worn Hungary in the early 1950s to mine for opal in the stark opal town of Andamooka where the famous "Andamooka Opal" or "Queen's Opal" was discovered in the 1950s and presented to Queen Elizabeth II.
  • The town is known for its opal mining and numerous opal fields that lie around the town as well as the "Yowah Nut" a local type of opal distinctive to the region.

  • During a crossover with the cast of "Scooby-Doo", Catwoman poses as a ghost in order to con Harley and Ivy out of the Opal of Isis, a rare artifact.
  • Each of the opals has been hand-carved by either Daniela Labiate or Christine Roussel, multi-award-winning master opal carvers regarded as world leaders in their craft.
  • "Chrysoritis thysbe", the opal copper or common opal, is a butterfly of the family Lycaenidae. It is found in South Africa.
  • The Olympic Australis opal is the largest and most valuable opal yet found (...) and was valued at [...] in 1997.
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