Associations to the word «Verneuil»

Wiktionary

VERNEUIL PROCESS, noun. The first commercially successful method of manufacturing synthetic gemstones, involving the melting of a finely powdered substance using an oxyhydrogen flame and crystallising the melted droplets into a boule.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats