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Masoud (2012) investigated the feasibility of employing bio and organic fertilization as a partial substitute for complete mineral fertilizers in Flame seedless and Ruby seedless grapevines. The findings indicated that substituting 50–70% of nitrogen requirements with either organic manure or biofertilizat...
Sapphires are a variety of the mineral corundum as are the equally famous and valuable Rubies. Rubies make up the red side of the family while Sapphires are all the other sapphire colors - the famous blue as well as pink, green, purple, orange and yellow. There are also black and colorle...
including Boutari’s Lac Des Roches and Kaligas’ Ruby. When the Hatzimichalis Winery emerged, she purchased large quantities of their labels, and in 1993, Avli hosted the first presentation of the experimental wines of the Spithari label from Hatzimichalis. Katerina had planted the ...
Chromium:Chromium is a mineral that is required by our bodies in very tiny (trace) amounts. Chromium is naturally found in many foods, but if you have chromium deficiency your body will not be able to use glucose efficiently as chromium enhances the action of insulin. This is the reason ...
and released in 1984. The wine was originally called Napamedoc, but was renamed Opus One in 1982. It immediately became one of Napa’s most premium (and expensive) wines produced. Opus One has long been considered a ‘California 1st Growth’ wine. The wine has a beautifully rich nose of...
However, it’s still available in a wide range of colors, such as Empire Red, Mineral Water Blue, Blue Velvet, Pistachio, Contour Silver, Black Matte, White and Milkshake. The different look is due to the bowl-lift design — it’s raised and held in place by two arms and moved up ...
Looking into the rich, lustrous depths of an amethyst cabochon makes it very easy to understand why this stone was considered to be as valuable as an emerald or ruby in ancient times. It is only in more recent history, when last century's abundant supplies of infer...
Did you know that a ruby is really a sapphire in disguise? Do you know that ruby is considered the king of the gemstones? Learn all there is to know about ruby in our collection of information about this special gem. Read about the cultural and religious history of ruby, the physical pr...
copper slotted grids (Plano, Wetzlar, Germany) and stained with uranyl acetate and lead citrate (Reynolds1963). Cells were imaged using a JEM-1400Plus transmission electron microscope (JEOL (Tokyo, Japan) operated at 80 kV and equipped with a JEOL Ruby CCD camera (3,296 × 2,472 ...