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enamel

[ih-nam-uhl] / ɪˈnæm əl /


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Existing products such as fluoride varnishes and remineralization treatments can help strengthen remaining enamel or reduce symptoms, but they cannot effectively replace the original enamel structure.

From Science Daily Jul. 23, 2026

This coating then acts as a framework for rebuilding the mineral structure of enamel.

From Science Daily Jul. 23, 2026

A newly developed dental gel may be able to rebuild damaged tooth enamel, potentially creating a new approach to preventing decay and restoring worn teeth.

From Science Daily Jul. 23, 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

The great insect landed at once, its red and yellow gleaming like enamel, and its filmy wings stiff and still on either side.

From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman

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

In 1839 he was appointed painter in enamels to the Queen, and in 1841 to the Prince Consort.

From English Painters with a chapter on American painters by S. R. Koehler

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

The high-relief altar front of gilded copper figures with enameled halos, 7 feet wide and nearly 3 feet tall, powerfully articulates the apostles.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 22, 2024

By some miracle, my first effort emerged from my enameled dish with its shape immaculately retained, strata recognizably separate.

From Salon Dec. 16, 2023

Celebrate the outsiders with this enameled stainless-steel camping mug, a collaboration between SODO’s Potluck Press and West Seattle’s Alair gift shop.

From Seattle Times Nov. 16, 2023

The sides of the thermos were enameled with red and yellow Ancient Greek scenes—a hero killing a lion; a hero lifting up Cerberus, the three-headed dog.

From "The Sea of Monsters" by Rick Riordan

At the top is an enamelled dove with outspread wings, which represents the Holy Ghost.

From Reuters May 5, 2023

She also looked at a rectangular enamelled trinket box, edged in lavender, featuring three colour portraits of the Queen Mother as a young woman.

From BBC Mar. 24, 2022

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 large chest of polished latoun had saints and angels enamelled in the panels.

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

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

The size-12 ring, which commemorates the Giants’ 20-19 victory over the Buffalo Bills in 1991, has two football-shaped diamonds surrounded by “worn blue enameling framed by 17 smaller diamonds,” according to the auction house’s description.

From Washington Post May 17, 2012

"Hello!" he said, the timbre of real youth in his voice, which childhood is so quick to detect from the silly enameling of tone coated on by grown-ups for the occasion.

From Star-Dust by Fannie Hurst

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

Since the Assyrian and Egyptian civilizations, there has been a succession of luxurious developments followed by lapses into the decline and death of the art of enamelling upon metals.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" by Various

The art of ancient Rome lacked the inspiration of Greece, being mainly confined to copying Greek forms and style, and in the case of enamelling it did not depart from this attitude.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" by Various

Dillon has pointed out that the process of enamelling had probably been derived from Syria, with which country Venice had considerable commercial intercourse.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 1 "Gichtel, Johann" to "Glory" by Various




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