We know that if we pour selenium on to mica, and if we try to tear off this mica, thin laminae of mica remain adhering to the selenium. From Wordnik.com. [Jean Baptiste Perrin - Nobel Lecture] Reference
The osseous nasal septum is composed of two laminae laid side by side. From Wordnik.com. [Surgical Anatomy] Reference
"I see the threads, the fibers of the threads, the laminae of the fibers.". From Wordnik.com. [The Languages of Pao]
The knives cut without pressure, splitting the tissues into glass-smooth laminae. From Wordnik.com. [The Languages of Pao]
A nomenclature for vertebral laminae in sauropods and other saurischian dinosaurs. From Wordnik.com. [‘Angloposeidon’, the unreported story, part II] Reference
A pair of ear plugs with ornamental metal laminae are placed in the enlarged ear lobes. From Wordnik.com. [The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir] Reference
The vascular tissue is in turn divided into coronary cushion, laminae and velvety tissue. From Wordnik.com. [Common Diseases of Farm Animals] Reference
An ordinary-sized tree standing on end, measured 22 inches in diameter: there were 12 laminae to the inch. From Wordnik.com. [Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa] Reference
Leaves a span long, cordato acuminate; the laminae all pointing downwards, glossy green and glabrous above. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia] Reference
The bands of the stratified laminae are formed by the overlapping, in any number, of identical fundamental "sheets". From Wordnik.com. [Jean Baptiste Perrin - Nobel Lecture] Reference
This disease is primarily a non-infective inflammation of the sensitive laminae which very frequently affects the front feet. From Wordnik.com. [Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1] Reference
In most other snail species, the apertural teeth and laminae, when they are present, begin to develop as a snail approaches maturity. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-07-01] Reference
The material, a grayish-yellow sandstone, breaking readily into thin laminae, and was quarried from the adjacent exposures of that rock. From Wordnik.com. [The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races] Reference
We have followed up closely on everything and discussed everything: Steel laminae, machinery, screws, raw material, spare parts, motors. From Wordnik.com. [Science, Technology Forum Opens in Havana Castro Addresses Forum] Reference
The gelatine has swollen and the intervals between the images of the interference fringes (Zenker's laminae) have become two or three times too large. From Wordnik.com. [Gabriel Lippmann - Nobel Lecture] Reference
The reason is that each of the laminae possesses its own independent vitality; in fact, the baobab is rather a gigantic bulb run up to seed than a tree. From Wordnik.com. [Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa] Reference
In a subject that has been down, unable to rise for several days, where there is a suppurative and sloughing condition of the laminae, the temperature is high. From Wordnik.com. [Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1] Reference
The functions of the labyrinthine caverns of the nose and forehead, and of the delicate osseous laminae which constitute the sounding-boards of vocalization, are thus destroyed. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 34, August, 1860] Reference
Vexillum explanatum, callo baseos laminae in unguem decurrenti. From Wordnik.com. [Expedition into Central Australia] Reference
Laminitis - inflammation of the laminae - is a symptom not a disease. From Wordnik.com. Reference
Quito made beautiful looking-glasses with an obsidian divided into parallel laminae. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1] Reference
If the limestone is laminated, the laminae here have split apart, although below they hold fast together. From Wordnik.com. [The Elements of Geology] Reference
It exhibits little veins of brown iron-ore, which separate in laminae, or plates, of one line in thickness. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2] Reference
Garnets are often found imbedded in the laminae, flattened by the extreme pressure to which the mass was subjected. From Wordnik.com. [On Horseback] Reference
The precipices shewed the lateral formation with the rock split into the finest laminae, terminating in sharp points. From Wordnik.com. [Expedition into Central Australia] Reference
What is the agency which enables us to split Honister Crag, or the cliffs of Snowdon, into laminae from crown to base?. From Wordnik.com. [Fragments of science, V. 1-2] Reference
The laminae of this fine-grained rock may be as thin as cardboard in places, and close joints may break the rock into small rhombic blocks. From Wordnik.com. [The Elements of Geology] Reference
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