| Rich copper-red color intermingles with yellow-olive iridescence at the margins. |
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| Rarely chalcopyrite appeared as a thin film on sphalerite crystal faces, giving specimens a slight iridescence. |
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| Luster, iridescence, and surface blemishes determine price, but so does size, color, shape, and unique matches of two or more pearls. |
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| Renaissance artists used paints and glazes that got their appealing color and iridescence from nanoparticles. |
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| Females are drabber, with subtle iridescence on overall grayish-brown bodies, spotted flanks, and a white teardrop surrounding each eye. |
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| Strontium sulfate is sometimes used to produce iridescence in glass and pottery glazes, and can also be used as a fining agent in crystal glass. |
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| A sparkling phosphorescence blossomed out through the water from where they hit the water, and the pool was lit with a strange iridescence. |
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| Decorative stickers with new materials: velvet, mirrored silver, hologram, sequins, copper, iridescence, slate! |
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| The different natural hues are due to the iridescence of the mother of pearl and to the mineral salts of the Polynesian lagoons. |
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| The mantle of a living oyster is the organ that produces the splendid iridescence called nacre, for which pearls are valued. |
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| His colours vary the grey more or less made darker with multicoloured iridescence often dominated by the blue. |
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| Entirely roofed with bichromated steel sheets, the faceted covering displays its indistinct iridescence under the sky from Rennes. |
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| The layer of asphalt obtained was consequently so thin that it displayed iridescence like a film of oil on the surface of water. |
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| He turned and began to pace among the flowers, flaring his wings from time to time so that the sunlight glittered off each pinion, and his feathers rippled with iridescence. |
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| The car enters the prismatic bands and I am bathed in iridescence. |
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| In glass design, too, the irregular shapes, floral allusions, and aleatory iridescence of art nouveau succumbed to solid geometry and flat, linear patterning. |
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| The clothes were dominated by gray, murky green, midnight blue, all with hints of iridescence. |
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| As I was being consumed by the iridescence of light reflected by the dewdrops, Crystal, my horse neighed impatiently putting his moist, warm brown muzzle to my ear. |
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| They measure its size and its age by the iridescence of the oil by satellite. |
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| When removed from the water, smelt reflect with a pink, purple or blue iridescence, hence the common name rainbow smelt. |
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| In four large-format paintings, the vestiges of resemblance are traded in for the iridescence of the surface itself. |
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| But first and foremost they have that same magic light that DUNE has, that iridescence that shimmers as you look at it. |
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| Helma offers an alternative to flowers: a stylised floral motif with refinement, playing on the iridescence. |
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| This gives a warm pink light that encourages plant growth and highlights the iridescence of many tropical fish. |
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| The twinning sometimes causes an iridescence, usually blue or green, that may arise either from reflection or diffraction at the edges of the lamellae, or from diffusion by adjoining areas with different optical properties. |
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| The distinctive features of this new Command Lady are the dial in natural mother-of-pearl, whose iridescence is marvelously enhanced by the sparkle of twelve Top Wesselton diamonds placed at the indexes. |
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| Color is brass-yellow, sometimes with iridescence. |
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| It has been shown that squid at least are able to change their iridescence. |
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| This group is characterised by a rather coarse and grainy stone-paste with a glaze that tends to deteriorate and, as a result, often shows varying degrees of iridescence. |
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| Melanosomes are also involved in the creation of iridescence, in which the colour is caused not directly by the pigment but by interference patterns that are created by the precise arrangement of the melanosomes. |
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| At the end the saxophone unfolds a descending nostalgic phrase, before emitting a multiphonic sound aimed at merging into a tremolo of the suspended cymbal for an iridescence effect. |
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| However, iridescence can also be altered by expanding and retracting the chromatophores above the iridophores. |
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| A favourite way of imitating iridescence on glass is to use gelatin made from bones or fish scales, into which an iridescent powder has been mixed. |
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| On transparent glass, such as was used in Europe, the effect is a brilliant iridescence, but on opaque glass, which Tiffany employed, the effect is a soft, satiny sheen. |
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