Mother-of-pearl is the hard, silvery, internal layer of several kinds of shells, especially oysters, the large varieties of which in the Indian Seas secrete this coat of sufficient thickness to ...

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This creates a material called nacre, also known as mother-of-pearl, which encases the irritant and protects the mollusc from it. When pearls are cultured commercially an irritant is manually inserted ...

By secreting layers of aragonite and conchiolin, the same substances that are in its calcium carbonate shell, the mollusc creates a material called nacre, commonly known as mother-of-pearl. The oyster ...

The mollusc deposits layers of aragonite and conchiolin, which together form nacre, also know as mother-of-pearl. In the wild, pearl formation is rare so most pearls sold these days are from ...

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Sailors man the rails aboard the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Chung-Hoon as the ship pulls into Naval Station Pearl Harbor after a six-month deployment in the Western Pacific ...

Tropical rock lobsters, or pearl lobsters, as they're better known, are one of the rarest and most expensive lobster varieties. The colorful crustaceans are so valuable that there have even been ...