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Scheelite, the Glossary

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Index Scheelite

Scheelite is a calcium tungstate mineral with the chemical formula CaWO4.[1]

Table of Contents

  1. 94 relations: Absorption spectroscopy, Active laser medium, Andradite, Apatite, Arizona, Barium, Birefringence, Bohemia, Calcium, Carl Wilhelm Scheele, Cassiterite, Cathode-ray tube, Central Otago, Chemical formula, Chemical synthesis, Cleavage (crystal), Conchoidal fracture, Crystal, Crystal habit, Crystal system, Crystal twinning, Cubic zirconia, Cumbria, Currais Novos mine, Czech Republic, Czochralski method, Dalarna, Diamond, Diamond simulant, Diopside, Dispersion (optics), Dopant, Dr. Stone, Dragoon Mountains, Druse (geology), Fluorescence, Fluorite, Fluoroscopy, Gemology, Gemstone, Giant Mountains, Glenorchy, New Zealand, Granite, Greisen, Grossular, Guttannen, Hermann–Mauguin notation, Hydrothermal circulation, King Island (Tasmania), Loket, ... Expand index (44 more) »

  2. Laser gain media
  3. Minerals in space group 88
  4. Phosphors and scintillators
  5. Tungstate minerals
  6. Tungsten minerals

Absorption spectroscopy

Absorption spectroscopy is spectroscopy that involves techniques that measure the absorption of electromagnetic radiation, as a function of frequency or wavelength, due to its interaction with a sample.

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Active laser medium

The active laser medium (also called a gain medium or lasing medium) is the source of optical gain within a laser. Scheelite and active laser medium are laser gain media.

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Andradite

Andradite is a mineral species of the garnet group. Scheelite and Andradite are calcium minerals.

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Apatite

Apatite is a group of phosphate minerals, usually hydroxyapatite, fluorapatite and chlorapatite, with high concentrations of OH−, F− and Cl− ion, respectively, in the crystal. Scheelite and Apatite are calcium minerals and gemstones.

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Arizona

Arizona (Hoozdo Hahoodzo; Alĭ ṣonak) is a landlocked state in the Southwestern region of the United States.

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Barium

Barium is a chemical element; it has symbol Ba and atomic number 56.

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Birefringence

Birefringence is the optical property of a material having a refractive index that depends on the polarization and propagation direction of light.

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Bohemia

Bohemia (Čechy; Böhmen; Čěska; Czechy) is the westernmost and largest historical region of the Czech Republic.

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Calcium

Calcium is a chemical element; it has symbol Ca and atomic number 20.

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Carl Wilhelm Scheele

Carl Wilhelm Scheele (9 December 1742 – 21 May 1786) was a German Swedish pharmaceutical chemist.

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Cassiterite

Cassiterite is a tin oxide mineral, SnO2. Scheelite and Cassiterite are tetragonal minerals.

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Cathode-ray tube

A cathode-ray tube (CRT) is a vacuum tube containing one or more electron guns, which emit electron beams that are manipulated to display images on a phosphorescent screen.

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Central Otago

Central Otago is an area located in the inland part of the Otago region in the South Island of New Zealand.

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Chemical formula

A chemical formula is a way of presenting information about the chemical proportions of atoms that constitute a particular chemical compound or molecule, using chemical element symbols, numbers, and sometimes also other symbols, such as parentheses, dashes, brackets, commas and plus (+) and minus (−) signs.

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Chemical synthesis

Chemical synthesis (chemical combination) is the artificial execution of chemical reactions to obtain one or several products.

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Cleavage (crystal)

Cleavage, in mineralogy and materials science, is the tendency of crystalline materials to split along definite crystallographic structural planes.

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Conchoidal fracture

A conchoidal fracture is a break or fracture of a brittle material that does not follow any natural planes of separation.

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Crystal

A crystal or crystalline solid is a solid material whose constituents (such as atoms, molecules, or ions) are arranged in a highly ordered microscopic structure, forming a crystal lattice that extends in all directions.

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Crystal habit

In mineralogy, crystal habit is the characteristic external shape of an individual crystal or aggregate of crystals.

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Crystal system

In crystallography, a crystal system is a set of point groups (a group of geometric symmetries with at least one fixed point).

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Crystal twinning

Crystal twinning occurs when two or more adjacent crystals of the same mineral are oriented so that they share some of the same crystal lattice points in a symmetrical manner.

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Cubic zirconia

Cubic zirconia (abbreviated CZ) is the cubic crystalline form of zirconium dioxide (ZrO2). Scheelite and cubic zirconia are gemstones.

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Cumbria

Cumbria is a ceremonial county in North West England.

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Currais Novos mine

The Currais Novos mine is a large open pit mine located in Rio Grande do Norte state of Brazil.

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Czech Republic

The Czech Republic, also known as Czechia, is a landlocked country in Central Europe.

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Czochralski method

The Czochralski method, also Czochralski technique or Czochralski process, is a method of crystal growth used to obtain single crystals of semiconductors (e.g. silicon, germanium and gallium arsenide), metals (e.g. palladium, platinum, silver, gold), salts and synthetic gemstones.

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Dalarna

Dalarna, also referred to by the English exonyms Dalecarlia and the Dales, is a landskap (historical province) in central Sweden.

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Diamond

Diamond is a solid form of the element carbon with its atoms arranged in a crystal structure called diamond cubic. Scheelite and diamond are gemstones and luminescent minerals.

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Diamond simulant

A diamond simulant, diamond imitation or imitation diamond is an object or material with gemological characteristics similar to those of a diamond.

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Diopside

Diopside is a monoclinic pyroxene mineral with composition. Scheelite and Diopside are calcium minerals and luminescent minerals.

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Dispersion (optics)

In optics and in wave propagation in general, dispersion is the phenomenon in which the phase velocity of a wave depends on its frequency; sometimes the term chromatic dispersion is used for specificity to optics in particular.

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Dopant

A dopant (also called a doping agent) is a small amount of a substance added to a material to alter its physical properties, such as electrical or optical properties.

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Dr. Stone

Dr.

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Dragoon Mountains

The Dragoon Mountains is a range of mountains located in Cochise County, Arizona.

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Druse (geology)

In geology and mineralogy, druse is a crystal habit represented by the coating of fine crystals on a rock fracture surface, or vein or within a vug or geode.

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Fluorescence

Fluorescence is one of two kinds of emission of light by a substance that has absorbed light or other electromagnetic radiation.

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Fluorite

Fluorite (also called fluorspar) is the mineral form of calcium fluoride, CaF2. Scheelite and Fluorite are calcium minerals, gemstones and luminescent minerals.

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Fluoroscopy

Fluoroscopy, informally referred to as "fluoro", is an imaging technique that uses X-rays to obtain real-time moving images of the interior of an object.

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Gemology

Gemology or gemmology is the science dealing with natural and artificial gemstone materials. Scheelite and Gemology are gemstones.

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Gemstone

A gemstone (also called a fine gem, jewel, precious stone, semiprecious stone, or simply gem) is a piece of mineral crystal which, when cut or polished, is used to make jewelry or other adornments. Scheelite and gemstone are gemstones.

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Giant Mountains

The Giant Mountains, Krkonoše, or Karkonosze (Czech:,, Riesengebirge), are a mountain range located in the north of the Czech Republic and the south-west of Poland, part of the Sudetes mountain system (part of the Bohemian Massif).

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Glenorchy, New Zealand

Glenorchy is a small settlement at the northern end of Lake Wakatipu in the South Island region of Otago, New Zealand.

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Granite

Granite is a coarse-grained (phaneritic) intrusive igneous rock composed mostly of quartz, alkali feldspar, and plagioclase.

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Greisen

Greisen is a highly altered granitic rock or pegmatite, usually composed predominantly of quartz and micas (mostly muscovite).

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Grossular

Grossular is a calcium-aluminium species of the garnet group of minerals. Scheelite and Grossular are calcium minerals.

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Guttannen

Guttannen is a municipality in the Interlaken-Oberhasli administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland.

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Hermann–Mauguin notation

In geometry, Hermann–Mauguin notation is used to represent the symmetry elements in point groups, plane groups and space groups.

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Hydrothermal circulation

Hydrothermal circulation in its most general sense is the circulation of hot water (Ancient Greek ὕδωρ, water,Liddell, H.G. & Scott, R. (1940). A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

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King Island (Tasmania)

King Island is an island in the Bass Strait, belonging to the Australian state of Tasmania.

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Loket

Loket (Elbogen) is a town in Sokolov District in the Karlovy Vary Region of the Czech Republic.

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Luoyang

Luoyang is a city located in the confluence area of the Luo River and the Yellow River in the west of Henan province.

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Lustre (mineralogy)

Lustre (British English) or luster (American English; see spelling differences) is the way light interacts with the surface of a crystal, rock, or mineral.

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Macraes

Macraes, formerly known as Macraes Flat, and known in Māori as Oti, on Kāti Huirapa Runaka ki Puketeraki website, viewed 2012-01-04 is a town in the Waitaki District in Otago, New Zealand.

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Metamorphism is the transformation of existing rock (the protolith) to rock with a different mineral composition or texture.

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Mineral

In geology and mineralogy, a mineral or mineral species is, broadly speaking, a solid substance with a fairly well-defined chemical composition and a specific crystal structure that occurs naturally in pure form.

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Mohs scale

The Mohs scale of mineral hardness is a qualitative ordinal scale, from 1 to 10, characterizing scratch resistance of minerals through the ability of harder material to scratch softer material.

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Moissanite

Moissanite is naturally occurring silicon carbide and its various crystalline polymorphs. Scheelite and Moissanite are gemstones.

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Molybdenum

Molybdenum is a chemical element; it has symbol Mo (from Neo-Latin molybdaenum) and atomic number 42.

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Mount Kinpu

, or is a mountain and the main peak in the Okuchichibu Range in Kantō Mountains.

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Nelson, New Zealand

Nelson (Whakatū) is a New Zealand city and unitary authority on the eastern shores of Tasman Bay at the top of the South Island.

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Neodymium

Neodymium is a chemical element; it has symbol Nd and atomic number 60.

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North Otago

North Otago is an area in New Zealand covers the area of the Otago region between Shag Point and the Waitaki River, and extends inland to the west as far as the village of Omarama (which has experienced rapid growth as a developing centre for astronomy and for gliding).

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Optical spectrometer

An optical spectrometer (spectrophotometer, spectrograph or spectroscope) is an instrument used to measure properties of light over a specific portion of the electromagnetic spectrum, typically used in spectroscopic analysis to identify materials.

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Ore

Ore is natural rock or sediment that contains one or more valuable minerals concentrated above background levels, typically containing metals, that can be mined, treated and sold at a profit.

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Oxygen

Oxygen is a chemical element; it has symbol O and atomic number 8.

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Pegmatite

A pegmatite is an igneous rock showing a very coarse texture, with large interlocking crystals usually greater in size than and sometimes greater than.

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Platinocyanide

Platinocyanide, also known as tetracyanoplatinate (IUPAC), cyanoplatinate, or platinocyanate, is a polyatomic ion with the molecular formula 2−. Scheelite and Platinocyanide are phosphors and scintillators.

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Praseodymium

Praseodymium is a chemical element; it has symbol Pr and the atomic number 59.

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Quartz

Quartz is a hard, crystalline mineral composed of silica (silicon dioxide). Scheelite and Quartz are luminescent minerals.

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Rare-earth element

The rare-earth elements (REE), also called the rare-earth metals or rare earths or, in context, rare-earth oxides, and sometimes the lanthanides (although scandium and yttrium, which do not belong to this series, are usually included as rare earths), are a set of 17 nearly indistinguishable lustrous silvery-white soft heavy metals.

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Refractive index

In optics, the refractive index (or refraction index) of an optical medium is a dimensionless number that gives the indication of the light bending ability of that medium.

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Relative density

Relative density, also called specific gravity, is a dimensionless quantity defined as the ratio of the density (mass of a unit volume) of a substance to the density of a given reference material.

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Säter

Säter is a locality and the seat of Säter Municipality, Dalarna County, Sweden, with 11,161 inhabitants in 2020.

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Scintillator

A scintillator is a material that exhibits scintillation, the property of luminescence, when excited by ionizing radiation. Scheelite and scintillator are phosphors and scintillators.

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Silesia

Silesia (see names below) is a historical region of Central Europe that lies mostly within modern Poland, with small parts in the Czech Republic and Germany.

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Skarn

Skarns or tactites are coarse-grained metamorphic rocks that form by replacement of carbonate-bearing rocks during regional or contact metamorphism and metasomatism.

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Solid

Solid is one of the four fundamental states of matter along with liquid, gas, and plasma.

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Sweden

Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden, is a Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe.

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Switzerland

Switzerland, officially the Swiss Confederation, is a landlocked country located in west-central Europe.

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Tetragonal crystal system

In crystallography, the tetragonal crystal system is one of the 7 crystal systems.

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Thomas Edison

Thomas Alva Edison (February 11, 1847October 18, 1931) was an American inventor and businessman.

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Topaz

Topaz is a silicate mineral made of aluminum and fluorine with the chemical formula AlSiO(F, OH). Scheelite and Topaz are gemstones and luminescent minerals.

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Tourmaline

Tourmaline is a crystalline silicate mineral group in which boron is compounded with elements such as aluminium, iron, magnesium, sodium, lithium, or potassium. Scheelite and Tourmaline are gemstones.

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Tremolite

Tremolite is a member of the amphibole group of silicate minerals with composition Ca2(Mg5.0-4.5Fe2+0.0-0.5)Si8O22(OH)2. Scheelite and Tremolite are calcium minerals and luminescent minerals.

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Trumbull, Connecticut

Trumbull is a town located in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States.

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Tungstate

In chemistry, a tungstate is a compound that contains an oxyanion of tungsten or is a mixed oxide containing tungsten.

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Tungsten

Tungsten (also called wolfram) is a chemical element; it has symbol W and atomic number 74. Scheelite and Tungsten are tungsten minerals.

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Ultraviolet

Ultraviolet (UV) light is electromagnetic radiation of wavelengths of 10–400 nanometers, shorter than that of visible light, but longer than X-rays.

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Vein (geology)

In geology, a vein is a distinct sheetlike body of crystallized minerals within a rock.

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Vesuvianite

Vesuvianite, also known as idocrase, is a green, brown, yellow, or blue silicate mineral. Scheelite and Vesuvianite are calcium minerals, gemstones and tetragonal minerals.

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Wilhelm Röntgen

Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen (27 March 184510 February 1923) was a German mechanical engineer and physicist, who, on 8 November 1895, produced and detected electromagnetic radiation in a wavelength range known as X-rays or Röntgen rays, an achievement that earned him the inaugural Nobel Prize in Physics in 1901.

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Wolframite

Wolframite is an iron, manganese, and tungstate mineral with a chemical formula of that is the intermediate mineral between ferberite (rich) and hübnerite (rich). Scheelite and Wolframite are tungstate minerals and tungsten minerals.

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X-ray

X-rays (or rarely, X-radiation) are a form of high-energy electromagnetic radiation.

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Zinc sulfide

Zinc sulfide (or zinc sulphide) is an inorganic compound with the chemical formula of ZnS. Scheelite and zinc sulfide are phosphors and scintillators.

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See also

Laser gain media

Minerals in space group 88

Phosphors and scintillators

Tungstate minerals

Tungsten minerals

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scheelite

Also known as Artificial scheelite, CaWO4, Calcium orthotungstate, Calcium tungstate, Calcium wolframate, Scheeiite.

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