Opal (disambiguation)

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Opal is a water hydrated gemstone

Opal may also mean:

Contents 1 Places 2 People 3 Research facilities 4 Other

[edit] Places

• Opal, Virginia
• 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.

• Opal (EastEnders) an upcoming fictional character on BBC Soap opera EastEnders

[edit] Research facilities

• OPAL, the Open Pool Australian Lightwater reactor, is a scientific facility in Sydney, Australia
• OPAL, one of the four detectors of the Large Electron-Positron Collider at CERN

[edit] Other

• OPAL, (Oracle/PHP/Apache/Linux)
• "Opal," a fictional drug created for the alternate reality game associated with the Nine Inch Nails album, Year Zero.
• 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 (fuel), a brand of petrol 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 and liqueur from Iceland.
• OPAL (software bundle), a LAMP-like open source software bundle.
• OPAL pipeline, a planned natural gas pipeline in Germany.
• Opal (band), a 1980s rock band from Los Angeles, USA.
• Opal Dream, a 2006 film.
• Opal (cigarettes), Bulgarian, Russian and Canadian cigarettes.
• The Opal programming language developed at the Technical University of Berlin.
• Opel a marque of automobile.
• RCA Opal, an mp3 player.
• OPAL, Open Phone Abstraction Library
• OPALS, Optimized Portfolio As Listed Securities
• Opal Cone, a volcano in southwestern British Columbia, Canada