Word: titania
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...some respects, the new "diamonds" made of titania (titanium dioxide) are better than the real thing.† Last week three advertisements in the New York Times Magazine offered cut stones "more brilliant than diamonds" at prices ranging from $10 to $16 a carat (price of first-grade white diamonds: about $1,100 for a one-carat stone). One ad suggested: "A handsome engagement ring made of our remarkable gem presented to any girl will win her devotion. The hundreds of dollars saved will go far toward building a permanent home...
...Titania's close resemblance to diamonds is due to its index of refraction, i.e., its ability to bend light rays. This property makes a stone glitter. Diamond's index of refraction is extremely high: 2.42. Titania's index is higher: 2.62 to 2.90. Even more important is its "dispersion," i.e., its ability to break white light into rainbow colors. Diamond disperses light twice as much as common glass does, but titania disperses it seven times as much. So far, titania cannot be made absolutely white (many valuable diamonds are not white, either), and it will never rival...
...choir was now really frightened, but it had no prospects for making a living in West Germany. It jumped at a chance to sing at the big Titania Palast in the U.S. sector of Berlin. The members hoped to return home with enough money and publicity to leave the Soviet zone soon afterwards. The East zone police, obviously well informed about the choir's plans, struck a few days after the choir left for Berlin. Schueck's wife was arrested when she went to the Dresden railway station to send some scores to her husband. The same...
...December, when Christmas carols were banned by the Russian military government, RIAS's Uncle Tobias (the RIAS equivalent of Uncle Don) invited children to sing carols in the huge Titania Palast. More than 5,000 showed up. Two repeat programs had to be held and RIAS beamed the show "especially for the benefit of those Kinder not fortunate enough to sing carols this Christmas...
...Fifth Symphony to his satisfaction. One-third of the orchestra was new, and he had only two days to rehearse it. He had arrived from Switzerland to find that his annotated scores had disappeared from his Potsdam home. But the concert had been postponed once and the Titania Palast was nearly sold out. He decided to go on with...