She had wanted a "clean, white shell in which to put my things," which included abundant and bold fine art, mercury-glass candlesticks, vintage cookie jars, masks, silver sombreros and many other objects.
They went back to California to pack up their house, "expecting to move into a clean shell," Mr. Freitag said.
The rising carbon monoxide bubbles stir the melt, lift inclusions, and cause the formation of a very clean shell about 50 millimetres thick, called the rim.
A daal chicken curry, the lentils almost melted away into its thick broth, is the ultimate warming winter stew, albeit one freshened by clean shell bursts of cardamom and a liberal handful of coriander.
Reta, confronted by the absolute loneliness of Norah, of how a daughter could be blankly unknowable to her, finds all her own certainties cracked and hopeless; she's a little girl again, and one who has 'dropped the ball in the schoolyard, lost that curved clean shell she was carrying home from the beach'.
They have been called "clean shell companies," "blind pools," "public shells" and, since the 1990s, the somewhat classier "special purpose acquisition companies" — SPACs.
Shells were cleaned in sodium hypochlorite solution (6 14% active chlorine; Merck, Darmstadt, Germany) for 2 h at room temperature with 5 min ultra sonication and change of hypochlorite solution every 30 min. Cleaned shells were washed with deionized water and dried.
The seeds were cleaned, shelled and air-dried in the shade for few days.
