Germanium looks like a metal, with a bright, shiny, silvery luster, but it is brittle and breaks apart rather easily. |
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Even bridal gowns that have a built-in crinoline often lack the luster and fullness that a bridal crinoline offers. |
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We know that democracy is a jewel that must be polished constantly to maintain its luster. |
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Absent these advantages, like fool's gold, the book lacks the luster of authentic, polished scholarship. |
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Primetime newsmagazines have proliferated even as the nightly newscasts have lost some of their luster. |
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For all the upbeat luster of their imagery and rhymes, his poems are often confessions of loneriness and distress. |
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I applied five coats of finish and then used steel wool to produce a soft, non-reflective luster. |
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It is transparent to translucent and displays a luster that varies from vitreous to somewhat pearly. |
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The mineral is transparent to translucent and has a vitreous to pearly luster and white streak. |
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Colorless or pale reddish or yellowish-brown specimens with an earthy to moderately vitreous luster are most commonly observed. |
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Smithsonite exhibits a vitreous luster that tends to be pearly on crystal faces. |
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The vitreous to iridescent luster is natural and not due to secondary treatment. |
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The luster of local material varies from splendent metallic to dull and ocherous. |
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Typically pierced handles and covers were decorated with different shades of matte or burnished gold, or with bronze luster. |
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And beyond the glitter of opulence, it must also glow with the burnish of remembrance, light up with the luster of nostalgia. |
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The luster is normally very bright, but some crystals are coated with iron and clay minerals and have lost their luster. |
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All cassiterite crystals exhibit twinning, and most are black with metallic luster. |
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The enamel has incredible luster and chatoyancy with an overall hue of dark metallic golden bronze. |
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All minerals posses specific physical properties such as color, luster, crystal form, cleavage, fracture, hardness, and specific gravity. |
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Like family heirlooms, libraries and research collections gain luster with age and use. |
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Some with the greatest access of luster equal the colors of painters, others the fervid flames of sulphur, or fires quickened with oil. |
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Crystals are probably at least partially metamict and can be recognized by their high specific gravity, pitchy luster, and black color. |
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Sanding will change the luster of the sanded spot, especially if the finish has been antiqued. |
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The luster of a mineral refers to the way in which light is reflected off of the mineral. |
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The patient may experience glossitis, or cracking at the edges of the mouth, and he or she may lose hair or the luster of the hair may change. |
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The result is an improved drape and luster, giving a feel and look of elegance. |
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Uraninite is typically seen as an opaque, steel-black to velvet-black mineral with a submetallic to greasy luster. |
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Bournonite is a steel-gray to iron-black metallic mineral with a luster that varies from brilliant to dull. |
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Scolecite is typically seen as a colorless to white, transparent to translucent mineral with a vitreous to silky luster. |
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The great Roman porticoes derived their luster from the fame of the statuary they displayed. |
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Prime the wall with a low luster latex enamel paint and allow it to dry completely before the next step. |
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The Korean War gave them the opportunity to add luster to their reputations. |
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With a soft, gleaming luster that even a little leftover field dust does nothing to hide, tomatoes beckon us to the summer kitchen. |
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This round lustred Maiolica dish was tin-glazed and coated with a luster glaze. |
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Anandia offers a beautiful variety of South Seas, Tahitian, Akoya, and freshwater pearls that range in size, color, and luster. |
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The sallowness of his complexion took the luster from his eyes, like lamps kept on in daylight. |
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If your nails lack luster, try delicately massaging some oil into them to give them a nice shine. |
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We're talking about you busting out of habitual patterns, bailing on projects that have lost their luster. |
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Gonnardite typically has a silky, almost opalescent luster, and it may exhibit a faint concentric banding. |
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It is the unbreakable staff of the arm, it has the powerful luster and its light even bedims the radiance of the sun. |
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Notice the skeletal fingers of the trees stretching upward, as if they could regain their lost luster if only they could reach the sun. |
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It spreads the natural oils of the hair, increasing hair luster and vibrancy. |
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The colours are softer and the images lose some of their luster, especially in comparison to the small studies. |
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His brindled hide had lost its luster, the short hair mottled by patches of dried blood. |
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The marriage was annulled in 1582 and Margherita became a nun, but the blazon was left to add luster to Farnese status. |
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A simple act of replacing damaged or worn out auto parts can go a long way in extending the life of your Mercedes Benz as well as in restoring its original luster. |
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He's a cinch, and he will add luster to one of the best classes ever. |
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Their luster was superb as was their limpid green color and transparency. |
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Mercerized cotton is treated to permanently straighten the cotton fibers which then becomes a smooth, rod-like fiber that is uniform in appearance with a high luster. |
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Needless to say, the gallows humor that is a hallmark of my former profession has lost much of its luster. |
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Like the princess in a fairy-tale forest, she'd free the jewel from its stinging enchantment, quickly polish it to high luster, then royally present it. |
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The gun was a deep gray luster, perfectly polished and never used. |
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Many are attractive, irregularly shaped masses of well-developed crystals that exhibit a very dark shade of grass-green and a moderate to almost brilliant luster. |
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Sperrylite is a tin-white mineral known for its brilliant metallic luster. |
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The surface luster of many of the calcite crystals is frosted. |
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One in the upper left was disk-shaped and appeared metallic in luster. |
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The company is counting on its next generation of cars and trucks, designed under car guru Robert A. Lutz, hired last year to add luster to GM's lineup. |
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At the same time, Iraqi potters developed luster glazes by adding metallic elements to the surface of the glazed piece before a second firing in the kiln. |
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Yet when our speedster pauses for just a moment, the luster of The Flash fades. |
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He has already developed a hair product that enhances the luster of red hair and has plans for more products. |
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That never happened, and luster declared bankruptcy while sitting in prison. |
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But after a bruising year and a half in office, some of the luster of transparency and transcendency is gone. |
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Some of the luster came off when the club hit the skids in December. |
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While you were drinking the coffee, the dealer's helpers were wetting down the merchandise, giving a false impression of good luster and camouflaging the dings. |
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Most natural corundum is of industrial quality, but transparent to translucent varieties with their adamantine to vitreous luster potentially yield gemstones. |
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At the base of the cable molding on the entrance portal, luster tiles were used in one of the very rare instances of this technique in fifteenth-century architecture. |
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At the same time, potters developed luster glazes by adding metallic elements to the surface of the glazed piece before a second firing in the kiln. |
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Chuck Werner, business manager of the historical society, said the cars will be primed and painted, and lettering will be added to restore them to their former luster. |
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Although the terms of the prize competition did not require it, he had chosen to fly solo, which of course added to the luster of his accomplishment. |
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A scaly lizard-like creature with gigantesque leathery bat-like wings and, scaly, ridged skin, with an abnormal and slightly captivating black luster. |
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The Specimens below are polished to a high luster on one side to allow viewing of the beautiful crystalline structure characteristic of this rare primitive achondrite! |
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At first light, when alpenglow fires the high summits with radiance like the burn of a gigantic campfire, the dusty surface of the old snowpack glows with eerie luster. |
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From our seats in the bleachers, we stared west, hoping that another kaleidoscopic Florida sunset would add symbolic luster to this most American rite of passage. |
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The surfaces are polished and finished with varying degrees of sheen or luster. |
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At 45 he had lost his luster, his zest for work, life, and family. |
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But George isn't Vogueing alone, because Fashion's latest obsession, Gisele, is at his side, to add more luster to the sparkle. |
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It takes many applications of lacquer and subsequent wet sanding operations to obtain that final smooth luster. |
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Their days of rest are wrested from them, their feasts are fasts, their lot is dust instead of luster. |
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Lash Extreme is formulated with Acacia gum and D-panthenol, which helps maintain moisture levels and generate sheen and luster. |
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Once your paint has been restored, drying your car with a chamois is just about all you have to do to restore the luster. |
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She climbed the Red Hill one cold day and dug oose root with which to bring a new luster to her long black hair. |
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An orphan among its peers, consecutive interpreting appears to have a short life and little if any luster. |
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A fresh fracture shows a clear bluish color with a high silky luster and fibrous appearance. |
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Anthracite is a hard, compact variety of coal that has a submetallic luster. |
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The newest addition to its Lustreware collection, Pacific Stripe brings together oyster, blue fin and seafoam luster in a contemporary striped pattern. |
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After so many years in the same field, the job had lost its luster. |
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Silver has a brilliant white metallic luster that can take a high polish, and which is so characteristic that the name of the metal itself has become a colour name. |
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This is often indicated by a rock with a surface which is dark and has a metallic luster, not all magnetic mineral bearing rocks have this indication. |
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Similar to the findings of Small and Luster, factors from each system emerged as significant predictors of age at sexual initiation. |
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Human BioSystems today announced that HBS BioEnergy, a wholly owned subsidiary of HBS, has appointed Claude Luster III as HBS BioEnergy's president. |
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Yang OO, Kalams SA, Trocha A, Cao H, Luster A, Johnson RP, et al. |
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