A closer investigation of the numerous long, narrow banks which lie off the Flemish coast and the Thames estuary shows that they are composed of fragments of rock abraded and transported by tidal currents and storms in the same way that the chalk and limestone worn off from the eastern continuation of the island of Heligoland during the last two centuries has been reduced to the coarse gravel of the off-lying Dune.
A corneal abrasion heals by the movement of neighboring epithelial cells, which slide over the wounded area, and through a cell division process called mitosis, which fill in the abraded area with new epithelial cells.
During the cleaning of these pieces, 3 small, abraded sherds of pottery were found to have adhered to the slag.
In order to see whether the heat came out of the chips he compared the capacity for heat of the chips abraded by the boring bar with that of an equal quantity of the metal cut from the block by a fine saw, and obtained the same result in the two cases, from which he concluded that "the heat produced could not possibly have been furnished at the expense of the latent heat of the metallic chips."
It must never be employed when the skin is abraded.
Nubuck Aniline dyed leather which has been lightly abraded on the grain surface to create a velvety finish or nap.
Sherds of Roman pottery were recovered from most contexts but all the sherds were much abraded and likely to be residual.
The pottery collection consists of quite small pieces, and all were very abraded.
The Roman material is moderately abraded but includes several groups of sherds from the same vessel (sherd families).
These are generally broken and heavily abraded as may be expected in a river transporting coarse gravel.
They are not, however, to be used in the disinfection of instruments, nor where any large abraded surface would favour absorption.
To restore the writing surface, the abraded area is brushed with powdered sandarac, a resin from a North African conifer.
Under blue cobalt light, the part of the cornea abraded will be stained by the dye and is easily seen by the examiner.