One of the men in the trench was a professional archaeologist, the other a volunteer delicately scraping with a trowel.
Pour this mixture (scraping with a rubber spatula to get all the bits stuck to the bowl) back into the saucepan.
There is also evidence of the use of drypoint (a hard needle used without acid), burnishing, and even scraping with a burin, a short, pointed tool.
For the most part, though, "crawling" is just scraping with a fancier name, and Google created one of the world's most valuable companies in part by being better at scraping than anyone else.
The material for the biopsy may be obtained by several methods and with various instruments, including aspiration through a needle, swabbing with a sponge, scraping with a curette, trephining a bone, or excision with forceps or an electric snare.
Small amounts of sample (0,1÷0.8 mg) were taken by scraping with a bistoury the surfaces of the paintings giving signs of damage.
The confluent A17 cell monolayer was wounded by scraping with a pipette tip, exposed to pharmacological treatments (10 µM indomethacin) and monitored for wound closure after 18 hours.
Cells were detached by scraping with a rubber policeman, collected by pelleting at 5,000× g and washed three times with PBS (1 mL).
Following aspiration of nonadherent RPMCs in the upper compartment, cells adherent to the upper surface of the membrane were removed by scraping with a rubber blade.
Mycelia were harvested from liquid culture centrifugation for 10 min at 3,500×g, and from solid culture by scraping with a spatula.
On the following day, a wound was made by scraping with a yellow pipette tip and cells were allowed to recover for 15 minutes and replenished with 10% FBS to drive cell migration.
