The thick inner layer of the shell is composed of nacre or mother-of-pearl, which in many species is highly iridescent, giving rise to a range of strong and changeable colors, which make the shells attractive to humans as decorative objects, and as a source of colorful mother-of-pearl.

Their plumage is often bright and highly iridescent, although it is quite dull in a few species.

Like other fairywrens, the Superb Fairywren is notable for its marked sexual dimorphism, males adopting a highly visible breeding plumage of brilliant iridescent blue contrasting with black and grey-brown.

Breeding males ' blue plumage, particularly the ear-coverts, is highly iridescent because of the flattened and twisted surface of the barbules.

The scales are highly iridescent.

Its members are known for their highly iridescent scales.

The scales are highly iridescent, creating a beautiful display of colors in the light.

This is a primitive snake known for both its highly iridescent scales and its ability to reproduce quickly, as it is Oviparous and as such can lay up to 10 eggs at a time.

Its most defining characteristic is its iridescent, highly polished scales that give this snake its common name.

The highly developed inner ear can detect sounds from dozens of miles away and discern from which direction the sound comes.

By contrast the interior, with its contemporary wood panelling, is in the same, highly contemporary Elizabethan fashion of Leicester's building in the inner court.

Unlike the outer membrane, the inner membrane doesn't contain porins, and is highly impermeable to all molecules.

The reason for neon's relative scarcity on Earth and the inner ( terrestrial ) planets, is that neon forms no compounds to fix it to solids, and is highly volatile, therefore escaping from the planetesimals under the warmth of the newly-ignited Sun in the early Solar System.

The program may slow down drastically if a highly utilized section of code ( like inner loops in various algorithms ) suddenly cannot fit in the cache.

Guides in the form of a hollow tube with a highly reflective inner surface have also been used as light pipes for illumination applications.

The end of silent film in the West and in Japan was imposed by the industry and the market, not by any inner need or natural evolution .... Silent cinema was a highly pleasurable and fully mature form.

This hypothesis proposes that the Sun may have an undetected companion star in a highly elliptical orbit that periodically disturbs comets in the Oort cloud, causing a large increase of the number of comets visiting the inner Solar System with a consequential increase of impact events on Earth.

Comets entering the inner Solar System for the first time may brighten rapidly before fading as they near the Sun, as a layer of highly volatile material evaporates.

The monument was arranged around an inner space, in which visitors could stand, the repeatedly fractured and highly angular memorial rose up on three sides as if thrust up from or rammed into the earth.

Triton's orbit upon capture would have been highly eccentric, and would have caused chaotic perturbations in the orbits of the original inner Neptunian satellites, causing them to collide and reduce to a disc of rubble.

The outer irregular satellites follow moderately to highly eccentric orbits, and none is expected to rotate synchronously as all the inner moons of Saturn do ( except for Hyperion ).

The overall point is that this reconstruction of our inner mental processes in the language and idioms of everyday public conversation is highly questionable, tenuous at best.

The skin of the arms, and specifically the softer skin of the inner arms and across the creased mid-arm bend covering the ventral side of the elbow, are highly sensitive to manual or lingual stimulation.

The outer membrane is permeable to most ions and metabolites, but the inner membrane is highly specialised with transport proteins.

The inner edge is not sharply defined: objects closer than 0. 06 AU are highly susceptible to Poynting – Robertson drag and the Yarkovsky effect, and even out to 0. 09 AU vulcanoids would have temperatures of 1, 000 K or more, which is hot enough for evaporation of rocks to be the limiting factor in their lifetime.

A layer of mucus along the inner walls of the stomach is vital to protect the cell linings of that organ from the highly acidic environment within it.

The scientific approach to the origin and evolution of life has, in part due to the success of molecular biology, given us highly valuable accounts of the outer aspects of the whole process, but has overlooked the inner qualitative aspects of sign action, leading to a reduced picture of causality.

* Articular capsule: the fibrous capsule, continuous with the periosteum of articulating bones, surrounds the diarthrosis and unites the articulating bones ; the articular capsule consists of two layers-( 1 ) the outer fibrous membrane that may contain ligaments and ( 2 ) the inner synovial membrane that secretes the lubricating, shock absorbing, and joint-nourishing synovial fluid ; the articular capsule is highly innervated, but avascular ( lacking blood and lymph vessels ), and receives nutrition from the surrounding blood supply via either diffusion ( a slow process ) or by convection, a far more efficient process achieved through exercise

A small elite, and highly technical segment of phreakers were more interested in information about the inner workings of the telecommunication system than in making free phone calls.

Meanwhile, Spinetta was working on a highly ambitious-though not original at that time-project: a rock opera about mankind ’ s inner search.

The size of the arena's inner ring is highly dependent on the event being hosted.

Triton's orbit upon capture would have been highly eccentric, and would have caused chaotic perturbations in the orbits of the original inner Neptunian satellites, causing them to collide and reduce to a disc of rubble.

Eventually, nacre from shell, usually mother of pearl or abalone, and other hard, inlay materials were incorporated to provide highly decorative effects.

Aluminium also causes a highly beneficial hard layer of aluminium oxide ( Al < sub > 2 </ sub > O < sub > 3 </ sub >) to be formed on the surface that is thin, transparent and self-healing.

The highly structural and organized cortex, or middle layer of the hair, is the primary source of mechanical strength and water uptake.

The free element ( metal ) is not found naturally on Earth, as it is highly reactive ( though once produced, it is coated in a thin layer of oxide ( see passivation ), which partly masks this reactivity ).

The surface layer of silicon dioxide on the wafer reacts with HMDS to form tri-methylated silicon-dioxide, a highly water repellent layer not unlike the layer of wax on a car's paint.

The Mediterranean waters are so much saltier than the Atlantic waters that they sink below the constantly incoming water and form a highly saline ( thermohaline, both warm and salty ) layer of bottom water.

The functionality of the transport layer alone is comparable to Transport Layer Security ( TLS ); the user authentication layer is highly extensible with custom authentication methods ; and the connection layer provides the ability to multiplex many secondary sessions into a single SSH connection, a feature comparable to BEEP and not available in TLS.

PTFE sealing methods are also of use for such applications as they produce an intermediate layer between the glass that is highly inert and solid, meaning it can not be displaced and the glass can never come in contact with its mating taper.

Within this thin layer are several types of neurons with a highly regular arrangement, the most important being Purkinje cells and granule cells.

As Mach numbers increase, the entropy change across the shock also increases, which results in a strong entropy gradient and highly vortical flow that mixes with the boundary layer.

The lipid layer is highly resistant to movement of electrically charged ions, so it functions mainly as an insulator.

The last technique requires the first layer to be a highly diluted consistency of paint ; this paint layer dissolves the surface sizing of the paper and loosens the cellulose tufts in the pulp.

A latent material ( PEDOT-TMA ) is included in this layer that, upon activation, becomes highly efficient as a hole injection layer.

The shells are made by electroforming onto a highly polished aluminium mandrel, starting with a 250 nm layer of vapour-deposited gold that becomes the reflecting surface, then the nickel support ; the mandrels are reusable but a different one is needed for each shell.

A thin layer of aluminum is vacuum deposited onto the mirror, forming a highly reflective first surface mirror.

The sternum is composed of highly vascular tissue, covered by a thin layer of compact bone which is thickest in the manubrium between the articular facets for the clavicles.

At the elevated temperature and pressure conditions chemically reactive constituents of the lubricant react with the contact surface forming a highly resistant tenacious layer, or film on the moving solid surfaces ( boundary film ) which is capable of supporting the load and major wear or breakdown is avoided.