The meat ( foot muscle ) of abalone is used for food, and the shells of abalone are used as decorative items and as a source of mother of pearl for jewelry and other decorative items.

These species include the bailer shell Melo, the giant clam Tridacna, various scallop species, Pen shells Pinna, and the Haliotis iris species of abalone.

Both wore ornamentation of necklaces, shell beads and abalone pendants, and bone wood earrings with shells and beads.

Nonetheless, towns such as Marlo and Mallacoota depended for a long time on the fishing of abalone, whose shells could fetch very high prices because of their use for pearls and pearl inlays.

Two black abalone shells in a tide pool at low tide

On San Miguel Island, archaeological evidence shows that the Island Chumash people and their ancestors ate black abalone for millennia and also used the shells to make fishhooks, beads, and ornaments.

The depleted stocks of black abalone were further reduced by Withering syndrome, first discovered in 1985, when commercial fishermen reported large numbers of empty shells and dying abalones on the shores of several of the Californian Channel Islands ( including the islands of Santa Cruz, Anacapa, Santa Rosa, Santa Barbara, San Miguel, and San Clemente ).

Although the Spanish did not land, natives paddled to the ship to trade furs for abalone shells from California.

The basic underpinnings of raden consist of variously applying the cut linings of mother-of-pearl, abalone, ivory, and other shells into the surface of the target lacquer or wood.

Wine bottles, whale bones, and abalone shells border paths meandering through the sheltered garden.

The shells of amoebas are often composed of calcium.

Almonds are sold shelled ( i. e., after the shells are removed ), or unshelled ( i. e., with the shells still attached ).

Each atom has, in general, many orbitals associated with each value of n ; these orbitals together are sometimes called electron shells.

Other common names are ear shells, sea ears, as well as muttonfish or muttonshells in Australia, ormer in Great Britain, and venus's-ears in South Africa and in New Zealand.

The shells of abalones have a low and open spiral structure, and are characterized by several open respiratory pores in a row near the shell's outer edge.

Highly polished New Zealand pāua shells are extremely popular as souvenirs with their striking blue, green, and purple iridescence.

E. tenera are spiral freshwater gastropods having elongated, spiral shells composed of many whorls.

* 1942 – World War II: The most famous ( and first international ) Aggie Muster is held on the Philippine island of Corregidor, by Brigadier General George F. Moore ( with 25 fellow Texas A & M graduates who are under his command ), while 1. 8 million pounds of shells pounded the island over a 5 hour attack.

* Laser guided shells require laser target designators, usually with observation teams on the ground but UAV installations are possible.

A pair of beads made from Nassarius sea snail shells, approximately 100, 000 years old, are thought to be the earliest known examples of jewellery.

Brachiopods, generally thought to be closely related to bryozoans and phoronids, are distinguished by having shells rather like those of bivalves.

These are sites of exceptional preservation, where ' soft ' parts of organisms are preserved as well as their more resistant shells.

The microscopic shells of radiolarians are found in cherts of this age in the Culm of Devon and Cornwall, and in Russia, Germany and elsewhere.

Brachiopods are also abundant ; they include productids, some of which ( for example, Gigantoproductus ) reached very large ( for brachiopods ) size and had very thick shells, while others like Chonetes were more conservative in form.

Cadmium and its congeners are not always considered transition metals, in that they do not have partly filled d or f electron shells in the elemental or common oxidation states.

Cadmium and its congeners are not always considered transition metals, in that they do not have partly filled d or f electron shells in the elemental or common oxidation states.

Early markings from this period found on pottery and shells are thought to be ancestral to modern Chinese characters.

The most common are calcite or calcium carbonate, CaCO < sub > 3 </ sub >, the chief constituent of limestone ( as well as the main component of mollusc shells and coral skeletons ); dolomite, a calcium-magnesium carbonate CaMg ( CO < sub > 3 </ sub >)< sub > 2 </ sub >; and siderite, or iron ( II ) carbonate, FeCO < sub > 3 </ sub >, an important iron ore.

When the organisms die, their shells are deposited as sediment and eventually turn into limestone.

** List of command-line interpreters, programs occasionally referred to as " shells "

The particles comprising the beach are occasionally biological in origin, such as mollusc shells or coralline algae.

* Conch shells are occasionally used as a building material, either in place of bricks, or as bulk for landfill.

Classic corps drum lines of the 1950s and 1960s used fewer exotic percussion instruments and relied instead on the stadium-filling power of a traditional line ( or " battery ") consisting of six or eight by double-tension maple snare and tenor drum shells and two or occasionally three by bass drums with an ornamental shell covering of hard plastic in a glossy sparkle or pearlescent finish.

Blackstone and Franklin Parks are solid land on the original neck, but clam and snail shells are just beneath its surface, as high seas would occasionally overrun the Neck.

The U. S. also uses mobile treatment systems to treat chemical test samples and individual shells without requiring transport from the artillery ranges and abandoned munitions depots where they are occasionally found.

The shells of this species are purple, blue or sometimes brown in color, occasionally with radial stripes.

Artillery and mortar shells shot into the area for practice are still occasionally found there today.

* Sekere: a melodic shaker ; beads or cowrie shells beautifully wound around a gourd, shaken, beaten by fists occasionally and thrown in the air to create a festive mood.

During the night, the American artillery, under the command of Henry Knox, occasionally fired shells into Trenton to keep the British on edge.

The term Rococo was derived from the French word " rocaille ", which means pebbles and refers to the stones and shells used to decorate the interiors of caves.

Armadillo shells have traditionally been used to make the back of the charango, an Andean lute instrument.

Beadwork in Europe has a history dating back millennia, to when shells and animal bones were used as beads in necklaces.

Cowry shells being used as money by an Arab trader.

As a major material used in mineralization of bone, teeth and shells, calcium is the most abundant metal by mass in many animals.

* Apparent breakdown of the widespread trade of the Indus civilization, with materials such as marine shells no longer used.

Gunpowder was widely used to fill artillery shells and in mining and civil engineering to blast rock roughly until the second half of the 19th century, when the first high explosives ( nitro-explosives ) were discovered.

Black powder is also used in fireworks for lifting shells, in rockets as fuel, and in certain special effects.

* Gelatin is used to make the shells of paintballs, similar to the way pharmaceutical capsules are produced.

Where shotshell reloading remains popular, however, is for making specialized shotgun shells, such as for providing lowered recoil, when making low cost " poppers " used for training retrievers before hunting season to acclimate hunting dogs to the sound of a gun firing without actually shooting projectiles, for achieving better shot patterning, or for providing other improvements or features not available in commercially-loaded shotshells at any price, such as when handloading obsolete shotshells with brass cases for gauges of shotshells that are no longer commercially manufactured.

In the taxonomies of artillery pieces used by European ( and European-style ) armies in the eighteenth, 19th, and 20th centuries, the howitzer stood between the " gun " ( characterized by a longer barrel, larger propelling charges, smaller shells, higher velocities, and flatter trajectories ) and the " mortar " ( which was meant to fire at even higher angles of ascent and descent ).

Jewellery may be made from a wide range of materials, but gemstones, precious metals, beads and shells have been widely used.

Other commonly used materials include glass, such as fused-glass or enamel ; wood, often carved or turned ; shells and other natural animal substances such as bone and ivory ; natural clay ; polymer clay ; and even plastics.

The Maldives provided the main source of cowrie shells, then used as a currency throughout Asia and parts of the East African coast.

The interest of Middle Eastern peoples in Maldives resulted from its strategic location and its abundant supply of cowrie shells, a form of currency that was widely used throughout Asia and parts of the East African coast since ancient times.

Rotary guns are generally used with large shells, 20 mm in diameter or more, offering benefits of reliability and firepower, though the weight and size of the power source and driving mechanism makes them impractical for use outside of a vehicle or aircraft mount.

These are also used for cracking the shells of crab and lobster to make the meat inside available for eating.

In his 1953 textbook, Max Hartmann used the term for extracellular ( pellicula, shells, cell walls ) and intracellular skeletons of protists.

Fossilized shells of two kinds of invertebrates are widely used to identify Permian strata and correlate them between sites: fusulinids, a kind of shelled amoeba-like protist that is one of the foraminiferans, and ammonoids, shelled cephalopods that are distant relatives of the modern nautilus.

The scientific name refers to the four large teeth, fused into an upper and lower plate, which are used for crushing the shells of crustaceans and mollusks, their natural prey.

The Ancient Egyptians covered the faces of pyramids with polished white limestone, containing great quantities of fossilized seashells .< ref > Viegas, J., Pyramids packed with fossil shells, ABC News in Science, < www. abc. net. au / science / articles / 2008 / 04 / 28 / 2229383. htm ></ ref > Many of the facing stones have fallen or have been removed and used to build the mosques of Cairo.

It is also the explosive used in HESH anti-tank shells.