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A loose filmy mass or a thin chiplike layer of anything; a film; flock; lamina; layer; scale; as, a flake of snow, paint, or fish.
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Add butter and pulse until mixture is reduced to flakes.
Tapioca starch, extracted from manioc (cassava), is sold in a number of guises, from flour to flakes, pearls of varying sizes, and precooked "instant" tapioca.
That depends on the temperature of the fat, and here it was perfect: the outside crisp so that it shattered under the pressure of fork, the pearly fish inside falling away to flakes.
SEM micrographs showed changes in the morphology of ZnO nanoparticles from rods to flakes indicating the formation of composites.
Under oxic conditions, the core shell structure quickly collapses to flakes or acicular-shaped structures with crystalline lepidocrocite (γ-FeOOH) as the primary end product.
Irrespective of the phase inversion, the morphology of the dispersed phase is deduced to be in a transitional state from rod-like shape to flakes within the whole proportional range investigated.
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Interestingly, the fusion protein was shown to bind to chitin flakes and to fungal cell walls through its LysM domain.
Add cod and cook just until it begins to flake.
Not 20 years after it was finished, in 1498, it began to flake.
Bring to a boil and then simmer until the fish starts to flake, about 10 minutes.
By working slowly, in tiny sections, the varnish began to flake off easily.
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