On Tue, 18 Nov 2008 23:00:23 -0500, the infamous "Ed Huntress"
scrawled the following:

"Larry Jaques" wrote in message

No, I strongly doubt it. These are metallic ceramic called
"zirconia", aka "man-made diamond", which I believe hadn't been
invented back then.

Zirconia (zirconium dioxide) is not man-made diamond. It's just another
ceramic. Man-made diamond is...man-made diamond. g

Zirconia is the material used to make Mitutoyo's Cerablock gage blocks.

And Cubic Zirconia is the trade name of one manmade diamond.


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I see you read those links about Latin. d8-)

Yeah, for kicks. I have a Latin book you might enjoy hearing about.
_How to Insult, Abuse, and Insinuate in Classical Latin_.

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