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Charlie Corcoran’s set, which is mostly a stretch of sky above a low grass hill, shimmers like nacre; Michael Gottlieb’s lighting design, particularly in the play’s final, stunning moment with Hugh, is finely shaded, before plunging into a spotlit darkness reminiscent of Caravaggio.
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Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2023
The resulting build up, called nacre, eventually forms the pearl.
—The Indianapolis Star, 5 Sep. 2023
In the process of studying nacre, some scientists couldn’t help notice the mussel’s hinge.
—Rahul Rao, Popular Science, 22 June 2023
When a foreign substance such as a speck of sand enters the oyster and gets lodged between the mantle and the oyster shell, the oyster reacts to this intrusion and protects itself by producing a substance known as nacre to envelop the irritant, one layer at a time.
—Thomas Lim, Forbes, 21 June 2022
Together, these secretions form a material called nacre.
—Mythili Devarakonda, USA TODAY, 25 Dec. 2022
Although nacre is made of calcium, proteins, and carbonate, the combination of these materials are 3,000 times tougher than each on is on their own.
—Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Nov. 2021
While all mollusks can technically make pearls, only some groups make them of nacre.
—Mythili Devarakonda, USA TODAY, 25 Dec. 2022
As an endangered and protected material, new nacre is farmed, and lacks the variety, size, thickness, color, sheen and depth of the wild material.
—Chadd Scott, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2022
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Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2023
The resulting build up, called nacre, eventually forms the pearl.
—The Indianapolis Star, 5 Sep. 2023
In the process of studying nacre, some scientists couldn’t help notice the mussel’s hinge.
—Rahul Rao, Popular Science, 22 June 2023
When a foreign substance such as a speck of sand enters the oyster and gets lodged between the mantle and the oyster shell, the oyster reacts to this intrusion and protects itself by producing a substance known as nacre to envelop the irritant, one layer at a time.
—Thomas Lim, Forbes, 21 June 2022
Together, these secretions form a material called nacre.
—Mythili Devarakonda, USA TODAY, 25 Dec. 2022
Although nacre is made of calcium, proteins, and carbonate, the combination of these materials are 3,000 times tougher than each on is on their own.
—Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Nov. 2021
While all mollusks can technically make pearls, only some groups make them of nacre.
—Mythili Devarakonda, USA TODAY, 25 Dec. 2022
As an endangered and protected material, new nacre is farmed, and lacks the variety, size, thickness, color, sheen and depth of the wild material.
—Chadd Scott, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2022
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“Nacre.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nacre. Accessed 23 Dec. 2024.
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