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From: kay@warwick.UUCP (Kay Dekker)
Newsgroups: net.games.frp
Subject: Re: Using a light spell as a laser
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Date: Mon, 9-Dec-85 19:01:25 EST
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Posted: Mon Dec  9 19:01:25 1985
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In article <1690@hammer.UUCP> hutch@hammer.UUCP (Stephen Hutchison) writes:
>Are you absolutely certain?  The gemologist at the Gem Mountain mines
>in Montana, where I spent 3 days this summer digging up sapphires,
>told me that the sugar-garnets I found were corundum, but so low-grade
>as to be nearly useless except as "pretty rocks".

Yep, 99.8% certain: I remember them as being complex silicates, and, to
come back to the original point, the YAG (in "YAG laser") stands for
(if I remember correctly) Yttrium Aluminium Garnet.

Sounds like you had fun this summer.

							Kay.


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