From: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org (alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest) To: ammf-digest@smoe.org Subject: alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V14 #5387 Reply-To: ammf@fruvous.com Sender: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest Wednesday, December 2 2020 Volume 14 : Number 5387 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Important Notice ammf-digest ["smoe.org Postmaster" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 01 Dec 2020 22:12:51 -0800 From: "smoe.org Postmaster" Subject: Important Notice ammf-digest [TABLE NOT SHOWN][TABLE NOT SHOWN] ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 2 Dec 2020 02:50:29 -0500 From: "Russian Girl For U" Subject: Just to Say Hello Just to Say Hello http://dialvision.co/_dvl_tp7u1ajXDGZmJfqh3ynw26CWPa1eCk96eNdLaMbvT3r http://dialvision.co/AzNTebmuYgXTRvjDTXb4HDs7hh4YsPs1AbU6qJWJ-TsO-qIv llusks can, by natural processes, produce some kind of "pearl" when an irritating microscopic object becomes trapped within its mantle folds, but the great majority of these "pearls" are not valued as gemstones. Nacreous pearls, the best-known and most commercially significant, are primarily produced by two groups of molluskan bivalves or clams. A nacreous pearl is made from layers of nacre, by the same living process as is used in the secretion of the mother of pearl which lines the shell. Natural (or wild) pearls, formed without human intervention, are very rare. Many hundreds of pearl oysters or mussels must be gathered and opened, and thus killed, to find even one wild pearl; for many centuries, this was the only way pearls were obtained, and why pearls fetched such extraordinary prices in the past. Cultured pearls are formed in pearl farms, using human intervention as well as natural processes. One family of nacreous pearl bivalves b the pearl oyster b lives in the sea, while the other b a very different group of bivalves b lives in freshwater; these are the river mussels such as the freshwater pearl mussel. Saltwater pearls can grow in several species of marine pearl oysters in the family Pteriidae. Freshwater pearls grow within certain (but by no means all) species of freshwater mussels in the order Unionida, the families Unionidae and Margaritiferidae. Physical properties Structure of nacre layers, wherein aragonite plates are separated by biopolymers, such as chitin, lustrin and silk-like proteins Electron microscopy image of a fractured surface of nacre The unique luster of pearls depends upon the reflection, refraction, and diffraction of light from the translucent layers. The thinner and more numerous the layers in the pearl, the finer the luster. The iridescence that pearls display is caused by the overlapping of successive layers, which breaks up light falling on the surface. In addition, pearls (espe ------------------------------ End of alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V14 #5387 **********************************************