striation

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"Each rifle barrel is different in minute detail and leaves distinct striation marks on the soft lead of a bullet head as it passes down the barrel," Mr Woods said.

From BBC • Jan. 18, 2025

The separation and striation phenomenon demonstrated in this video was discovered and studied by Hernan A. Makse, who described it in a series of papers, including these:

From Scientific American • Jun. 2, 2014

Her emphasis on overcoming class divides and minority issues is especially salient as the Chinese grapple with their own rural and urban striation and construct an idea of the “China Dream.”

From Washington Post • Mar. 27, 2014

The striation is due to the regular alternation of the contractile proteins actin and myosin, along with the structural proteins that couple the contractile proteins to connective tissues.

From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013

There was, however, not a whisper of war, nor anything visible except the thin, pale line like a striation on the distant hills.

From Over There War Scenes on the Western Front by Bennett, Arnold