When you polish the rough edges away, you discover a beauty that was always there but was just a little hidden. Using this strategy, a rock tumbler turns ordinary-looking rocks into gems. However, to ...

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In order to turn a rough semiprecious stone into a beautiful piece of art, there are generally two options. You could wait a few hundred or even thousands of years for water and sand to polish the ...