Sentences with phrase «as nacre»

To create a cultured pearl, a tiny bead is implanted into an oyster and gradually over time the oyster coats the bead in many layers of natural minerals and proteins known as nacre.

Just as the the nacre's «weak» protein - rich boundaries dissipated energy and kept the chalky structure from shattering, these curving cracks in the glass would divert and channel cracks in the brittle glass so it could not fracture any further.

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This outstanding combination of features makes the nacre - mimetic material a promising candidate for future applications, not only as a structural material, but also for gas storage applications and food packaging.

The natural version, also called nacre, is found on the inner shell of some molluscs, where it is built up of layers of the mineral aragonite separated by organic polymers such as chitin.

We would like to use nacre and similar materials as a protective coating in many situations.

Nacre, otherwise known as mother of pearl, makes up the opalescent exterior coating of a pearl and the inner coating of mollusk shells.

Scientists have long been interested in this lightweight, yet strong material for a range of applications, manufacturing substances that imitate nacre for use as fire retardants, gas barriers and conductors.

Nicole Gehrke, a former Ph.D. student in the lab, had recently managed to fill a biological matrix with mineral to reproduce nacre, a composite, iridescent, calcium carbonate — rich material formed in the inner shell of some mollusks and commonly known as mother of pearl.

This creates a material called nacre, also known as mother - of - pearl, which encases the irritant and protects the mollusc from it.

Much like irritants caught in an oyster's flesh, words once hurtful and degrading lose their power to wound us as associations accumulate like so many layers of radiant nacre, such that what once caused pain becomes bound in possibility.

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