The animal then secretes a calcium substance called nacre to protect itself. From Wordnik.com. [Boutique Week: Boutique of the Week: Bourdage Pearls, Chicago] Reference
The inside shells of oysters and other shell-forming mollusks are covered with a shiny, lustrous substance called nacre, or mother-of-pearl. From Wordnik.com. Reference
Natural pearls are born quite by chance when the oyster can’t get rid of some particle inside and coats it with layer upon layer of a smooth, hard substance called nacre. From Wordnik.com. [Willow] Reference
I'd call it Eden, if I were inclined to nacre things. From Wordnik.com. [The Howling Stones]
They seemed to be fashioned of nacre, though not carved. From Wordnik.com. [The Zero Stone]
(Telloh); tessellated pillars with nacre plaques ( 'Obeid). From Wordnik.com. [How to Observe in Archaeology] Reference
The mast held nothing but a lamp, intricate with silver wire and nacre. From Wordnik.com. [Orphans of Chaos] Reference
Skin that had glowed with pink nacre now shone with eerie luminescence. From Wordnik.com. [Wild Dreams of Reality, 5] Reference
They looked as if made of nacre and diamond dust, but rippled tike silk. From Wordnik.com. [The Boat of a Million Years]
She tore open the blouse from the bottom, popping fake nacre buttons all over. From Wordnik.com. [RL’s Dream] Reference
He stepped into an anteroom of mahogany panels, nacre ceiling, and live carpet. From Wordnik.com. [Genesis]
Her sapphire ring was real and her glasses were lined with nacre cut from a single shell. From Wordnik.com. [A Red Death] Reference
Very largely used for decoration; small plaques of nacre often engraved with scenes of men worshipping, &c. From Wordnik.com. [How to Observe in Archaeology] Reference
Nangi, watching the two of them, saw in their inter-action layers like nacre on the inside of a pearl's shell. From Wordnik.com. [The White Ninja]
The interior is scarcely less attractive, the nacre having a pink and bluish lustre, while the “lip” is dark red. From Wordnik.com. [My Tropic Isle] Reference
The ceiling here, too, was white except not-white, something Ginny called nacre, a word Myra kept meaning to look up. From Wordnik.com. [MORE FROM GINNY BATES: SETTING UP HOUSE] Reference
Another illustration is that of an accumulation of nacre which has assumed accidental resemblance to a miniature shark. From Wordnik.com. [Tropic Days] Reference
The substance of a sensation — the consolidation of discomfort on the part of an oyster or other nacre-secreting mollusc. From Wordnik.com. [Tropic Days] Reference
Here stood ghostly frail chairs woven of fish bones, around a stone table inset with shell and nacre, laid with covered dishes of gold. From Wordnik.com. [Three Hearts and Three Lions]
Its. radiance stopped down by the compensator circuits, it spread corona and great wings of zodiacal light like nacre across the stars. From Wordnik.com. [do you ever read writing?] Reference
The 'dinis on Earth had evidently cornered the market in pearls, nacre and other iridescent marine shells, items not available on Aurigae. From Wordnik.com. [Damia's Children]
While the cheaper grades of indestructible pearls have but three or four layers of nacre, some of the fine ones have as many as thirty or more. From Wordnik.com. [A Text-Book of Precious Stones for Jewelers and the Gem-Loving Public] Reference
Recently, we found negative Poisson's ratio in nacre. From Wordnik.com. [iMechanica - Comments] Reference
It curled, a violet riband, through the nacre-coloured air. From Wordnik.com. [The Picture of Dorian Gray] Reference
Dans un coffret de nacre j'ai trois turquoises merveilleuses. From Wordnik.com. [Selected Prose of Oscar Wilde] Reference
The article by K. Bertoldi also shows positive Poisson's ratio for nacre. From Wordnik.com. [iMechanica - Comments] Reference
Purplish bivalves and enormous nacre-lined conch shells lay upon the tables. From Wordnik.com. [The Dead Command From the Spanish Los Muertos Mandan] Reference
Microscopic Firewalls - Robust foils of synthetic nacre analogues act as a heat shield. From Wordnik.com. [Nano Tech Wire] Reference
Like true nacre, the analogues have a brick-wall structure of "hard" and "soft" materials. From Wordnik.com. [Nano Tech Wire] Reference
They raced to the water, that gleamed pale as nacre in the deepening twilight in the eye of the evening star. From Wordnik.com. [Widdershins] Reference
The interior is scarcely less attractive, the nacre having a pink and bluish lustre, while the "lip" is dark red. From Wordnik.com. [My Tropic Isle] Reference
A few, however, of the Secondary, and even Palæozoic shells, still retain the rich prismatic hues of the original nacre. From Wordnik.com. [The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed] Reference
The Labradore stone has I suppose its colours from the nacre or mother-pearl shells, from which it was probably produced. From Wordnik.com. [The Botanic Garden A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: the Economy of Vegetation] Reference
The substance of a sensation -- the consolidation of discomfort on the part of an oyster or other nacre-secreting mollusc. From Wordnik.com. [Tropic Days] Reference
Ikkala has now developed a nacre analogue with mechanical properties that outperform those of some high-performance polymers. From Wordnik.com. [Nano Tech Wire] Reference
Later, when we deal with the energy absorbing and failure of the nacre, we consider a nonlinear cohesion law between nanograins. From Wordnik.com. [iMechanica - Comments] Reference
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