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Usage examples of flake.

If so much as a flake of dandruff met a particle of antihydrogen, the results would be .

Inuit technology can be recognized in the transition from the American Paleoarctic tradition use of microblades as projectile point insets to the subsequent manufacture and use of bifacially flaked and ground side blades.

The difference between bifacially flaked tools and microblade technology may be more than a difference in stoneworking technique.

Dillehay also found two bifacially flaked stone tools somewhat resembling elongated and rounded projectile points, stone flake cores and flake tools, and worked bone.

Lower Pleistocene Crags were described as being artifacts, such as the flints, some flaked bifacially, in the Red Crag near Ipswich, and the so-called rostro-carinates from the base of the Norwich Crag near Norwich.

Lower Pleistocene Crags were described as being artifacts, such as the flints, some flaked bifacially, in the Red Crag near Ipswich, and the so-called rostrocarinates from the base of the Norwich Crag near Norwich.

Here were found the remains of large mammals, associated with distinctive bifacially flaked spear points, and with burins and blades made from characteristic wedge-shaped cores.

Small flakes, pieces, grains of broomcorn were moving about on the tabletop, and there was no breeze.

He tossed in another bay leaf and a few more flakes of catnip, changed his mind and attempted to scoop them out again.

It was snowing, big fat flakes coming down, looking Christmassy and nice.

These conditions are mainly in the arrangement of the lower rain-clouds in flakes thin and detached enough to be illuminated by early or late sunbeams: their textures are then more softly blended than those of the upper cirri, and have the qualities of painted, instead of burnished or inflamed, color.

A sharp crosscurrent picked up the fine flakes, swirled them into pockets and hollows, then scooped out the wind-blasted crystals and flung them across the open space.

He reached into a drawer of his desk and drew out a resilient ball cast of some clear elastometer shot with flakes of gold.

Furthermore, the flaking on the flints was undoubtedly of human origin.

The gray sky still glowered its threat of snow, but for the time being, no flakes fell.