Edward Elric returns to Resembool and reunites with his father who reveals an important fact about the human transmutation they attempted years before.
Lieutenant Hawkeye reluctantly tells Ed all the dreaded details of the role Colonel Mustang and the other state alchemists played in the Ishbalan extermination campaign.
Ed and Al come face to face with the "father" of the homunculi, who just so happens to be a dead ringer for their own father, Van Hohenheim, a resemblance too uncanny for coincidence.
Explains what gemstones are, the scale to rank hardness called the Mohs' scale, how stones are weighed, how they are formed, how stones are cut, and non-jewelry uses for gemstones.
Fifteen-year-old Kat Bishop and her fellow talented teenagers work together to find and steal the "Cleopatra Emerald" from an unscrupulous dealer and return it to its rightful owner, while a former love of her Uncle Eddie tries to get the gem for herself.
Presents a photographic introduction to crystals and gems, explaining what they are and how they form, discussing color, identification, recovery, carving, and value, and looking at specific types of gems.
Describes how crystals, semiprecious stones, and precious metals form in nature, how crystals are grown artificially, and how crystals are used in industry.
