Opal (disambiguation)

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Opal is a water hydrated gemstone

Opal may also mean:

[edit] Places

• Opal, Wyoming
• Opal or Upal, a town on Karakoram Highway in Xinjiang, China.

[edit] People

• Opal Koboi One of the main antagonists of the Artemis Fowl series.
• The Opals is the traditional nickname of the Australia women's national basketball team.

[edit] Other

• Opal City, A fictional city in the DC universe. Home to Starman, Elongated Man, and many other heroes. Notable for its Art Deco architecture.
• OPAL, the Open Pool Australian Lightwater reactor, is a scientific facility near Sydney, Australia
• OPAL, one of the four detectors of the Large Electron-Positron Collider at CERN
• Opal (fuel), a brand of gasoline produced by BP Australia
• Hurricane Opal, a devastating hurricane in 1995
• In classical genetics, opal was the name of the stop codon UGA
• OPAL (software), The Open Physics Abstraction Layer is a realtime physics engine.
• OPAL, a brand of candy from Iceland.
• OPAL (software bundle), a LAMP-like open source software bundle.
• OPAL pipeline, a planned natural gas pipeline in Germany