enamel
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All of this means much more time sifting through silica and wielding her tiny enamel brush.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026
Scientists at the University of Nottingham's School of Pharmacy and Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering created the material to imitate the biological processes that form enamel naturally.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 23, 2026
According to the researchers, this organized growth helps the repaired surface recover both the microscopic architecture and the physical properties of healthy enamel.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 23, 2026
Although it is the hardest tissue in the human body, enamel contains no living cells and cannot repair itself once it has been lost.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 23, 2026
His nose rebelled against the very noticeable odor of fresh enamel.
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
Previously, researchers attempting to construct artificial enamels have struggled to achieve those different levels of organization.
From Science Magazine ● Feb. 2, 2022
She painted it with 1 Shot-brand sign lettering enamels mixed with clear enamel and pearlescent powdered pigments.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 25, 2020
You can buy the enamels from Rust-Oleum for about $40 a can, by the way.
From US News ● Jul. 18, 2016
On the less impressive side are enamels that seem to aspire to the condition of Modern easel paintings, encompassing subject matter both abstract and figurative.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 26, 2016
A frame of coloured enamels by Mr. Bailey, and some in black-and-white by Mr. Henderson and Mr. Barnes, also attracted considerable notice.
Upstairs, the exhibition highlights 19th-century innovations, including the introduction of colored porcelain in celadon, and enameled, painted and gilded pieces.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2025
By some miracle, my first effort emerged from my enameled dish with its shape immaculately retained, strata recognizably separate.
From Salon ● Dec. 16, 2023
The tradition is Nico will grab his little enameled metal bowl, and I’ll hand him the cup.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2023
For sale: The historic Decatur Lustron, a “space-age ranch” style home built in 1949 in Decatur, Georgia, from enameled steel panels supplied by a fighter plane factory.
From Washington Times ● May 18, 2023
His left hand, which rested on his enameled sword hilt, was bandaged.
From "The Horse and His Boy" by C.S. Lewis
At the top is an enamelled dove with outspread wings, which represents the Holy Ghost.
From Reuters ● May 5, 2023
During the excavation, a number of other items were unearthed including enamelled brooches, coins, decorated pottery and animal bones.
From BBC ● Dec. 8, 2021
Benjamin grew up in London, where his father worked in fashion magazines and his mother ran Halcyon Days, a shop in Mayfair that sold enamelled copper boxes—an eighteenth-century art form that she revived.
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 10, 2018
Page is excited to point out that the table is a reflection of the design in the enamelled iron ceiling.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 8, 2018
A superb enamelled chess-board, with pieces of jasper and crystal, stood at checkmate beside the bed.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
Which is not to say that enameling has ended as a popular craft or that technical skills have withered.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 26, 2016
He can describe peacocks and chrysanthemums as if enameling a Persian miniature.”
From Washington Post ● Aug. 22, 2015
The award is accompanied by a Jaeger-LeCoultre Reverso that has been made unique by commemorative engraving and enameling.
From Forbes ● Aug. 30, 2014
In one corner stood a small enameling kiln, inherited from his grandmother, along with heirloom jars of glazes featuring her handwritten labels and nylon lids cut from stockings.
From New York Times ● Oct. 5, 2012
Usually four men worked together enameling a single skin.
From The Story of Leather by Sara Ware Bassett
She also watched a demonstration of traditional enamelling and gilding by hand by master artisans before examining several pieces in closer detail.
From BBC ● Mar. 24, 2022
He sold his patent-rights in a bath-tub enamelling process.
From Time Magazine Archive
Fine lines and hatchings are painted as with "silver stain," and in this respect only is there any approach to enamelling in the making of a coloured glass window.
From Arts and Crafts Essays by Members of the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society by Various
The native glass-workers adopted the process of enamelling, but applied it to a form of decoration characteristically German.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 1 "Gichtel, Johann" to "Glory" by Various
The first is in an excellent state of preservation, as it is upon gold, but the latter, like most of the ancient enamelling upon silver, has lost most of its enamel.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" by Various
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