iridescence
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The team found that sea silk's iridescence is created by a spherical protein structure known as "photonin."
From Science Daily ● Feb. 9, 2026
“For example, when you look at oyster shells, they have an iridescence of pearly green and blue, and that’s definitely from minerals like copper,” she says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2024
Tentacular growths begin to invade the offshore structure, shimmering with oily iridescence against the rig’s dull, cold steel.
From New York Times ● Jun. 17, 2024
Her eyes are turquoise and sparkly; her feathers a silky black with a sheen of iridescence, sometimes green, sometimes lavender depending on the light.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 21, 2024
The boulders show and seem to rise up and the ocean recedes leaving little pools, leaving wet weed and moss and sponge, iridescence and brown and blue and China red.
From "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck
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