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She laughed impudently, in spite of the murderous blackening in his face.
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This is an operation in which you cannot help blackening your fingers.
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He looked at the blackening bruise on Father Storey's scalp and swallowed.
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Destroyed when, with an Earth-shattering roar, the excavators came, blackening the sky.
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Scraggy junipers lined the top, their jagged silhouettes blackening against the sky.
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That may mean burnishing his credentials by responding forcefully to perceived threats.
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Then Garnache espied a page on the window-seat, industriously burnishing a cuirass.
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After a considerable amount of rubbing and burnishing, he had a crude tool.
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He found them all hard at work burnishing up their armour.
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Valentin hauled himself to his feet, the firelight burnishing his scales.
Usage of black oxide in English
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The red oxide corresponds to the blackoxide of iron.
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It often contains MAGNETITE (the magnetic blackoxide of iron) and OLIVINE (a greenish magnesian silicate).
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In some places it is obtained from what is called the specular iron ore, and also from blackoxide.
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These cliffs proved, as Bennie had already suspected, to be a gigantic outcrop of pitchblende or blackoxide of uranium.
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Use equal parts of boiled oil, white lead, pipe clay and blackoxide of manganese, and form it into a paste.
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The ore (probably the blackoxide) was like sand, and was put in at the top of the furnace, mixed with charcoal.
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Early in his experimental career Scheele undertook the solution of the composition of blackoxide of manganese, a substance that had long puzzled the chemists.
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"Possibly it's blackoxide of manganese you want?" he said, quietly.
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The most abundant oxidised ores are the carbonates, malachite and chessylite; the silicates, as also the red and blackoxides, occur less abundantly.
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"Eradicating ink is simply a bleaching process," she remarked, "which leaves the iron of the ink as a white oxide instead of a blackoxide.