opalescent

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Her intricate renderings of abandoned interior spaces; massive opalescent soap bubbles resembling alien planets; and even the occasional pegasus have been exhibited at the Vito Schnabel Gallery in New York and Soft Opening in London.

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He discovered his first fossil — a small opalescent ammonite — in Somerset, in southwest England, when he was 12, which ignited a passion for paleontology and led to his getting a Ph.D. in the subject.

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I also noticed opalescent scales and a bit of blood on my shoulder and back.

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Crystal Holographic, this year’s iteration of Lancôme’s annual holiday highlighter, is quietly opalescent.

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He learned how to manipulate liquid nitrogen and carbon dioxide, how sodium alginate and calcium chloride could turn olive juice into an opalescent olive sphere.

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