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    entirely of nacre. All of the following can cause a keshi pearl to grow: An attack on a pearl-producing mollusc by a predator that bores through its shell...
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    Some Cloudina shells even show evidence of predation, in the form of borings. The fossil record primarily contains mineralized exoskeletons, since these...
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    colours available: "Branco Glacier" (solid), "Vermelho Fogo" and "Preto Nacré" (both metallic). It can accelerate from 0 to 100 km/h (62 mph), in eight...
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    Association (ICGA) events in Graz, Austria, the AbaPro program defeated the Nacre program. In 1999, a number of top players from the Mind Sports Olympiad...
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    not fare any better than control groups. It is commonly used in lieu of boric acid and can be used to help control and possibly eliminate bed bugs, house...
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    (1882) Abeille (Honey-Bee) (1883) Balthasar (1889) Thaïs (1890) L'Étui de nacre (Mother of Pearl) (1892) La Rôtisserie de la reine Pédauque (At the Sign...
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    1603-17) And His Immediate Predecessors. Dumas, Juliette (2013). Les perles de nacre du sultanat: Les princesses ottomanes (mi-XVe – mi-XVIIIe siècle). Peirce...
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    are obtained as a by-product from other industries. Mother-of-pearl or nacre is the naturally occurring lustrous layer that lines some mollusc shells...
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    Valley. The red stone would then be chipped to the right size and a hole bored through it with primitive drills. The beads were then polished. Some beads...
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    law of God. Peirce 1993, p. 245. Dumas, Juliette (2013). Les perles de nacre du sultanat: Les princesses ottomanes (mi-XVe – mi-XVIIIe siècle). p. 464...
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    of "pearl buttons", in other words, buttons made of mother-of-pearl or nacre. In recent years however, the majority of "pearl buttons" are imitations...
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  •  113, 119. ISBN 978-1-56859-121-6. Dumas, Juliette (2013). Les perles de nacre du sultanat: Les princesses ottomanes (mi-XVe – mi-XVIIIe siècle). p. 464...
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    foraminifera test testate amoebae Seashell echinoderm stereom mollusc shell nacre chiton shell gastropod shell small shelly fauna scaly-foot snail shell estuary...
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    Université Paris Sud. OCLC 972899981. Dauphin, Y. (2001). "Nanostructures de la nacre des tests de céphalopodes actuels". Paläontologische Zeitschrift. 75 (1):...
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    The inner lip is strengthened internally by a buttress of porcelaneous nacre, which ends abruptly towards the point of the columella, forming a tooth...
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  • found in the same locations, was not affected by borings. In addition, the distribution of borings in Cloudina suggests selection for size – the largest...
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    foraminifera test testate amoebae Seashell echinoderm stereom mollusc shell nacre chiton shell gastropod shell small shelly fauna scaly-foot snail shell estuary...
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  • Montpellier's concept artists developed the idea of a large mask, constructed from nacre. Chahi remarked that the team had drawn inspiration from various musical...
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    extinguishing chimney fires. Later, Nikita Macedonski registered the invention of nacre-treated paper, which is sometimes attributed to his father. The few issues...
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  • Ringstranda Formation (Norway). Li et al. (2023) compare the lamello-fibrillar nacre and similar fibrous microstructures in Early Cambrian molluscs and hyoliths...
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  • Toscano, Lazo & Luci (2018). Evidence of exceptional preservation in the nacre and prismatic layers of a 66-million-years-old bivalve shell (of a member...
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  • Devonian orthocerid Dolorthoceras from the Polar Urals (NW Russia) preserving nacre and organic fibres as well as its persistence in cephalopod evolution"....
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  • bromides MeSH D01.139.300.050.100 – cyanogen bromide MeSH D01.146.275.500 – nacre MeSH D01.146.360.050 – apatites MeSH D01.146.360.050.300 – hydroxyapatites...
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