striation

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"Each rifle barrel is different in minute detail and leaves distinct striation marks on the soft lead of a bullet head as it passes down the barrel," Mr Woods said.

From BBC • Jan. 18, 2025

Many sarcomeres are present in a myofibril, resulting in the striation pattern characteristic of skeletal muscle.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022

The separation and striation phenomenon demonstrated in this video was discovered and studied by Hernan A. Makse, who described it in a series of papers, including these:

From Scientific American • Jun. 2, 2014

Her emphasis on overcoming class divides and minority issues is especially salient as the Chinese grapple with their own rural and urban striation and construct an idea of the “China Dream.”

From Washington Post • Mar. 27, 2014

These corpuscles will behave like those shot from the cathode and will accumulate again at some distance from their origin, forming the bright head of the next striation, when the process will be repeated.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 8 "Conduction, Electric" by Various