Sentence examples for layer of enamel from inspiring English sources

He calls them duochromes because they have a ground layer of enamel on top of which he paints in oil.

A lifetime of crunching, gnawing, and grinding wears away the outer layer of enamel and flattens the biting edges.

Plique-à-jour consists of a thin layer of enamel held in un-backed wire cells so that, resembling stained glass, it is transparent or translucent.

For example, the molars of Anoiapithecus are covered by a thick layer of enamel, and its lower jaw is robust.

For cast-iron dry-process enamels, powdered glass is dusted over the hot ware; as it melts it forms a continuous layer of enamel.

A C.T. scan of a jaw of Homo rudolfensis, a hominid that lived about two million years ago, shows its teeth, designed for grinding tough plants, had a much thicker layer of enamel than ours.

Modern and early sharks possessed placoid scales, a relatively primitive type of scale with a toothlike structure, consisting of an outside layer of enamel-like substance (vitrodentine), an inner layer of dentine, and a pulp cavity containing nerves and blood vessels.

"No one can get six layers of enamel to stick.

It takes a little less than a week for her to complete a dial, which must go through multiple firings to add layers of enamel.

This effort led them in the 1880s to produce lineless cloisonné enamels, which have all the beauty and brilliance of true cloisonné, with thick layers of enamel colours, but which, showing no trace of cloisons, permit a gradation of colours as in the less clear and brilliant painted enamels.

The time required to grow a tooth is determined by counting layers of enamel, called perikymata, on its surface.