pellicles

"pellicles", suggesting that a false sense of security given by pasteurization was no protection.

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Nor do we need to seek any other reason for the number of these pellicles beyond this that the orifice of the venous artery being of an oval shape from the nature of its situation, can be adequately closed with two, whereas the others being round are more conveniently closed with three.

Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting the Reason, and Seeking the Truth in the Sciences 2002

_Bacterium roseopersicina_ forms, in pools, rosy or red pellicles that cover vegetable debris and disengage gases of an offensive odor.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 446, July 19, 1884 Various

The pellicles have been carefully analyzed, under the supposition that they might be alloys of iron and nickel, or some other refractory metal, but the analysis has failed to substantiate this theory.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 601, July 9, 1887 Various

All of us have seen wine when exposed to air gradually sour, and become converted into vinegar, and we know that in this case the surface of the liquid is covered with white pellicles called "mother of vinegar."

Scientific American Supplement, No. 446, July 19, 1884 Various

These pellicles are made up of myriads of globules of

Scientific American Supplement, No. 446, July 19, 1884 Various

At last he revealed his discovery, and laid before Captain Sutter the pellicles of gold he had picked up in the ditch.

Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals David Widger

These northern species are singularly free from an impregnation of tannin in the pellicles which leaves a bitter after taste so familiar with certain of their chief competitors in the nut market.

Northern Nut Growers Report of the Proceedings at the Twenty-First Annual Meeting Cedar Rapids, Iowa, September 17, 18, and 19, 1930

The edges were obtuse, the caps fleshy, then corky, smooth, the upper ends not regular, oblique in the form of an umbo or little knob, the pellicles or outside layers thin and easily separated.

Among the Mushrooms A Guide For Beginners Caroline A. Burgin

The leaves are lanceolate, glossy and vividly green, traversed by rich crimson veins: the flowers hang in clustering pellicles, like lilacs, of deep rose-color, and fill the vicinity with rich perfume.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 22, January, 1873 Various