Some, such as the silvery John dory ( Zenopsis conchifera ), form small and loose schools ; while others, such as the John dory, are generally solitary when not spawning.

Antimony is a silvery, lustrous gray metal that has a Mohs scale hardness of 3.

Americium is a relatively soft radioactive metal with silvery appearance.

It is the fifth element in Group 2, a soft silvery metallic alkaline earth metal.

It is a silvery metallic element that must be extracted by electrolysis from a fused salt like calcium chloride.

Curium is a hard, dense, silvery metal with a relatively high melting point and boiling point for an actinide.

Californium is a silvery white actinide metal with a melting point of 900 ± 30 ° C and an estimated boiling point of 1745 ° C.

A CD or compact disc is a thin plastic silvery disc for audio recordings.

It is a moderately hard, silvery metal which readily oxidizes in air and water.

Einsteinium is a soft, silvery, paramagnetic metal.

Whereas most other pure metals are gray or silvery white, gold is yellow.

A soft silvery metallic poor metal, elemental gallium is a brittle solid at low temperatures.

A lustrous, silvery gray, tetravalent transition metal, hafnium chemically resembles zirconium and is found in zirconium minerals.

Hafnium is a shiny, silvery, ductile metal that is corrosion-resistant and chemically similar to zirconium ( due to its having the same number of valence electrons and being in the same group ).

Lanthanum is a silvery white metallic element that belongs to group 3 of the periodic table and is the first element of the lanthanide series.

Lanthanum is a soft, malleable, silvery white metal which has hexagonal crystal structure at room temperature.

Lead is a bright and silvery metal with a very slight shade of blue in a dry atmosphere.

The free element, which is a silvery metal with a gray cast, has the sixth-highest melting point of any element.

This holds equally for all photons of the visible spectrum, which is why metals are often silvery white or grayish with the characteristic specular reflection of metallic luster.

It is a soft silvery metal that tarnishes in air.

Freshly cut potassium is silvery in appearance, but it begins to tarnish toward gray immediately after being exposed to air.

Pure radium is a white, silvery, solid metal, melting at 700 ° C ( 1292 ° F ) and boiling at 1737 ° C ( 3159 ° F ), similar to barium.

Scandium is a soft metal with a silvery appearance.

Strontium is a grey, silvery metal that is softer than calcium and even more reactive in water, with which it reacts on contact to produce strontium hydroxide and hydrogen gas.

The striped bass is a typical member of the Moronidae family in shape, having a streamlined, silvery body marked with longitudinal dark stripes running from behind the gills to the base of the tail.

The body has a typical cyprinid shape and generally silvery appearance, while the fins are a pinkish red in varying degrees.

After moulting their natal fur, their color changes to blue-grey on their backs and silvery beneath ; after some years some portions become darker and others brighter, and only at the age of four years does the typical design show.

The road leading south along the river was shaded with old trees, and in the moonlight the silvery landscape was like a setting for trolls and wood gods rather than the Hudson River Valley of his boyhood memories.

The alkali metals are a group of chemical elements in the periodic table with very similar properties: they are all shiny, soft, silvery, highly reactive metals at standard temperature and pressure and readily lose their outermost electron to form cations with charge + 1.

When he discovered that the original Desiree, Glynis Johns, was able to sing ( she had a " small, silvery voice ") but could not " sustain a phrase ", he devised the song " Send in the Clowns " for her in a way that would work around her vocal weakness, e. g., by ending lines with consonants that made for a short cut-off.

The colour of the bracts varies from a creamy white to a deep crimson, but the soft pale pink bracts with a silvery sheen are the most prized.

When cut open, lithium exhibits a metallic luster, but contact with moist air corrodes the surface quickly to a dull silvery gray, then black tarnish.

The very high site of the town offers stunning views over the Asso, Ombrone and Arbia valleys of Tuscany, dotted with silvery olive orchards, vineyards, fields and villages.

Nereids are particularly associated with the Aegean Sea, where they dwelt with their father in the depths within a silvery cave.

Following this application, the name " duct tape " came into use in the 1950s, along with tape products that were colored silvery gray like tin ductwork.

The general color of this fish is a reddish brown, with some golden tints-the sides being of a pink silvery luster.

The sides have a faint silvery hue with dusky specks, and the belly is white.

The body is often quite silvery and largely or entirely without spots but with indistinct longitudinal bands.

Many desert and semidesert species are particularly pale, some almost silvery or whitish ( e. g. Arabian oryx ); the Beisa and southern oryxes have gray and black pelages with vivid black-and-white faces.

They are generally silvery fish with streamlined, spindle-shaped, bodies, and they are often schooling.

Black, or red, grapes have a white flesh and grape juice obtained after minimal possible contact with the skins produces white wine, the colour of which is offset by the small amount of red skin pigments and turns into lighter shades of yellow, often described as white-yellow, white-grey, or silvery.