nacre|nacres in English

noun

[na·cre || 'neɪkə(r)]

mother-of-pearl, shiny transparent substance that lines many shells

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1. Take, for example, this beautiful blue nacre shell.

2. 28 The oyster covers the piece of shell with a pearly substance known as nacre.

3. Thus stimulated, the oyster begins coating the irritation with layers of nacre, eventually producing a pearl.

4. What you will certainly notice is the pearl’s luster, which is dependent upon the thickness of its nacre.

5. Additionally, nacre does not exist among Architectonicids ( Bandel, 1990 ; Granosolarium cretasteum Stilwell and Henderson, 2002 with nacreous shell from the

6. She wore a crown created by Catalina Salcedo made in silver with rhinestones and has a flower design and pearl nacre valued at approximately $10,000.

7. Shiny rainbow-colored mother-of-pearl, also called nacre, comes from the inner layer of their shells, and it is often used in the cultured pearl industry.

8. And I think in many ways we can sort of think of the use of the blue nacre shell and the Mayans as the first real application of the bluetooth technology.

9. It is well-known that certain types of oysters can turn irritants —small fragments of stone, for instance— into lustrous pearls by enveloping them in layers of a secretion known as nacre.

10. Pearlite was first identified by Henry Clifton Sorby and initially named sorbite, however the similarity of microstructure to nacre and especially the optical effect caused by the scale of the structure made the alternative name more popular.

11. Aragonite and calcite are the two calcium carbonate polymorphs that give the shell of molluscan bivalves their strength and elasticity, due to the nano- and microstructural assembly of the overall architecture. Nacre, or mother of pearl, has not yet been identified as osteoinductive or osteointegrative.

12. The Chambered nautilus, Nautilus pompilius, also called the pearly nautilus, is the best-known species of nautilus.The shell, when cut away, reveals a lining of lustrous nacre and displays a nearly perfect equiangular spiral, although it is not a golden spiral.The shell exhibits countershading, being light on the bottom and dark on top.This is to help avoid predators, because when seen from