High pressure science and engineering is studying the effects of high pressure on materials and the design and construction of devices, such as a diamond anvil cell, which can create high pressure. By high pressure it is meant pressures of thousands (kilobars) or millions (megabars) of times atmospheric pressure (about 1 bar).
It was by applying […]
The Walnut Valley Unified School District is located in the eastern portion of Los Angeles County and is a part of the Greater Los Angeles Area of the U.S. state of California. It serves the city of Walnut and much of the city of Diamond Bar.
Schools
The district contains 9 elementary schools, 3 middle schools, and […]
Blue Diamond may refer to:
A blue diamond, the most famous example being the Hope Diamond
The Blue Diamond, the name assigned in 1954 to the air demonstration unit of the Philippine Air Force. In 1960, this was changed to The Blue Diamonds.
Blue Diamond, Nevada, a census-designated place (CDP) in Clark County, Nevada, […]
A Roman Scandal was a synth pop band from Austin, Texas active from 1999 through 2001. Members included Tyler Jacobsen (from Denim and Diamonds and OMD 20/20), Sean O’Neal (from the Arm and This Microwave World), Chris Bultman (from the Daniel Johnston Band, Jad Fair, This Microwave World, and Denim and Diamonds), Alex Killough […]
Several ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Diamond.
Diamond, a 50-gun ship launched at Deptford in 1652 and captured by France in 1693.
Diamond, a fifth-rate 50 gun ship launched at Blackwall in 1708 and rebuilt at Depford in 1722, sold in 1744.
Diamond, a fifth-rate launched at Limehouse in 1741 and sold in 1756.
HMS […]
For other people with the same name, see James Gregory.
James Gregory was a noted 19th century British mineralogist.
When he was sent in 1868 by diamond merchant Harry Emmanuel of London’s Hatton Garden to Hopetown, South Africa to determine if claims of diamonds being found there were true, he investigated and reported back, that “The whole […]
Eva Almos is a Canadian voice actress, who voiced Friend Bear and Swift Heart Rabbit in Nelvana’s Care Bears films and TV series, and also appeared in AlfTales.
Almos was also a writer of USA Network’s animated sitcom, Duckman, and as of 2006 has continued this job with An American in Canada and several animated series. […]
Shock diamonds (also known as Mach diamonds or Mach disks) are a formation of shock waves in the exhaust plume of an aerospace propulsion system, such as a supersonic jet engine, rocket, ramjet, or scramjet. It is formed when the supersonic exhaust from a nozzle is slightly over or under-expanded, meaning that the pressure of […]
Juul Haalmeyer is a costume designer, best known for doing costume design on several iterations of SCTV. In addition, he was the “leader” of the Juul Haalmeyer Dancers, a woefully inept troupe of variety show dancers made up mostly of writers and crew on SCTV. Haalmeyer also worked a costume designer for many television […]
A winkle is a rare squeeze/endplay in contract bridge in which a trick is offered to the defenders but whichever wins the trick is then endplayed. Often one defender would be forced to offer a finesse or ruff and discard while the other could overtake and thereby promote a trick in that suit for declarer.
An […]