OpenF2F Class Notes 10th August (Celeste)

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The gems are very beautiful stones, but not each kind of beautiful stones can be called “GEMS”. There are serval conditions must be satified:
1. The stones are natural. In other words, they can not be producted by people.
2. The stones are stable, they don’t lose their color under sunshine or melt in some cleanser liquid.
3. The stones is not frigile. People can combine them with a metal setting to a fancy jewelry.

Edited

Gems are very beautiful stones, but not each kind/type of beautiful stones can be called “gems”. There are several conditions that must be met/satisfied:
1. The stones are natural. In other words, they can not be produced by people.
2. The stones are stable, they don’t lose their color under sunshine or melt in some cleaning liquids/dissolvents/chemicals .
3. The stones are not fragile. People can combine them with a metal setting to get/make/create/design  fancy jewelry.

natural ( nat – cher – ull )

fragile ( fra j-eye – ull )

January – garnet ( gar nit )
February – amethyst ( am – i – thist )
March – aquamarine
April – diamond ( die – mind )
August – peridot ( pear i do )
September – sapphire ( saf – fire )
December – turquoise ( tur koy z )

tourmaline ( tur ma leen )

minerals (min er ulls ) – small, microscopic things found in water, dirt…

derive / deriving / derived / will derive v.- comes from

legends ( le jinds ) – stories, myths

purify (pyer – if – eye ) v.- to make clean, to get rid of bad things