pellicle

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Others are encased in glassy silica-based shells or wound with pellicles of interlocking protein strips.

From Textbooks • Apr. 25, 2013

The pellicles have been carefully analyzed, under the supposition that they might be alloys of iron and nickel, or some other refractory metal, but the analysis has failed to substantiate this theory.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 601, July 9, 1887 by Various

Once the kernels become dark, they cannot be brightened except by bleaching and removing the pellicles.

From Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Twenty-Fourth Annual Meeting Downington, Pennsylvania, September 11 and 12, 1933 by Northern Nut Growers Association

The leaves are lanceolate, glossy and vividly green, traversed by rich crimson veins: the flowers hang in clustering pellicles, like lilacs, of deep rose-color, and fill the vicinity with rich perfume.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 22, January, 1873 by Various

In the same way in Lavoisier's experiment it had combined itself with the mercury to form the red pellicles.

From In Search of a Son by Walsh, William Shepard