She unfolds rainbow moonstones, sparkling rose-quartz disks, aquamarines, mirrorlike smoky quartz ("the stone of depressed people") and a mound of sprinkles identified as .
There were cityscapes of Boston and Cambridge in which the red bricks of Beacon Hill and Harvard glow with warmth, the Charles is mirrorlike and the winter sun, casting long .
After it cools, it is sliced into thin, half-dollar-size wafers, which are polished to a mirrorlike finish, then reheated and exposed to a precisely measured amount of dopant gas.