| The distressed surfaces, with their flinty earth tones, cobalt blues and nacreous whites, hold light like rough alabaster. |
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| The shell of Microdoma conicum bears an inner nacreous layer and their shell layers resemble those of modern trochoids. |
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| A solitary spot-light illuminates the stage, bathing the floorboards in a nacreous glow. |
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| Recycled glass tiles emit a nacreous sheen that changes throughout the day. |
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| They suggested that this species is similar in microstructure to modern unionid bivalves, which are externally prismatic and internally nacreous. |
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| The dorsal ligament groove is overlain dorsally and flanked laterally by the nacreous middle shell layer. |
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| Like nacreous clouds, these usually form slightly above the troposphere, in the dry and ice-free stratosphere. |
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| The lowest of these clouds is nacreous, which normally forms between 10 and 20 miles above the Earth. |
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| Day after day, it absorbs and keeps heavy metals, pesticides and temperature markers in the nacreous layers of its shell. |
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| The nacreous gondola is ornated by mermaids, underlining the mythical, the imaginative, the unreal components of the composition. |
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| The inside of the shell is always nacreous, often in iridescent greens and blues. |
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| The shell consists of three layers, the periostracum, prismatic, and nacreous layers. |
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| The implanted graft grows to form a pearl-sac around the nucleus, enveloping it with a thin layer of a secreted nacreous material. |
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| The external colour of the shell is often dark blue, blackish, or brown, while the interior is silvery and somewhat nacreous. |
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| The infrequent clouds that do occur are called nacreous, or mother-of-pearl, clouds because of their striking iridescence, and they appear to be composed of both ice and supercooled water. |
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| A soap bar having the appearance of a polished wood grain containing a generally unidirectionally oriented iron oxide coated micaceous nacreous pigment. |
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| Pearl essence of this subheading consists of a suspension, in a vehicle usually formed of cellulose nitrate and amyl acetate, of nacreous flakes of guanine obtained from the scales of certain fish. |
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| There is a succession of hills and valleys with lower slopes of nacreous limestone, on the slopes there is limestone with chert and on the hilltops clay and hard limestone. |
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| Referring to a variety of papers, Japon is usually laid paper, somewhat translucent and fibrous, often with a satiny or even nacreous aspect, and a floculent texture. |
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| Some minerals are nacreous or pearlescent, giving the skin a shining or sparking appearance. |
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| They are covered with a smooth, safe, nacreous layer to let them slip, pearllike, from our souls without real pain. |
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| The shell presents a representative nacroprismatic microstructure, with columnar calcitic prisms in the upper and nacreous layer in the lower. |
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| Nacreous and Noctilucent clouds form not in the part of the atmosphere in which we live, but much higher up, in the stratosphere and mesosphere. |
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