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by Crystalmood Team on 06/22/2011
Q: What is titanium?
A: Sometimes called the "space age metal", titanium has a low density and is a strong, lustrous, corrosion-resistant (including sea water, aqua regia and chlorine) transition metal with a silver color.
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by Crystalmood Team on 05/22/2011
Carved lacquer is one of Chinese ancient lacquer handicrafts. It comes of Tang Dynasty (618-907AD), in Song and Yuan Dynasty, early or late appeared incising black lacquer, incising color lacquer ware and incising Xi pattern lacquer ware. Up to Ming and Qing Dynasty, the carved lacquer handicraft has been developed continuously, the kinds of carved lacquer ware have increased.
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by Crystalmood Team on 05/22/2011
[Boxwood]
Boxwood is a small tree and shrub. Due to the limited size of the material, it is rarely used for full-sized pieces of furniture, but more often for small, carved objects or as decorative inlay. Boxwood is very durable and dense (.83-.93 g/cm3), and its fine even texture makes it especially suitable for carving.
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by Crystalmood Team on 03/02/2011
Fossil wood, aka petrified wood, or "Wu-mu" and "Yin-chen mu" in Chinese, is a fossil of a woody plant preserved by permineralization through time by chemical and physical processes. Continue Reading
by Crystalmood Team on 02/13/2010
The Spring Festival is the most important festival for the Chinese people and is when all family members get together, just like Christmas in the West. All people living away from home go back, becoming the busiest time for transportation systems of about half a month from the Spring Festival. Airports, railway stations and long-distance bus stations are crowded with home returnees.
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