Tuesday, October 5, 2010

FRENCH Antique MOTHER of PEARL Perfume Bottle Opera Glasses CROSSES Necklaces ONE of a KIND Jewelry


Mother of Pearl or Nacre
From Wikipedia


The iridescent nacre inside a Nautilus shell.




Nacre pronounced /ˈneɪkər/[1] or "NAY-kər", also known as mother of pearl, is an organic-inorganic composite material produced by some mollusks as an inner shell layer; it is also what makes up pearls. It is very strong, resilient, and iridescent.




Nacre is found in some ancient lineages of bivalve gastropod and cephalopod. The inner layer in the great majority of mollusk shells is porcellaneous, not nacreous, frequently resulting in a non-iridescent shine or less commonly in non-nacreous iridescence such as flame structure (e.g. conch pearl).







Pearls and the inside layer of pearl oyster and freshwater pearl mussel shells are made of nacre. Many other families of mollusk also have a nacreous inner shell layer, including marine gastropods such as the Haliotidae, the Trochidae and the Turbinidae




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(Type "Mother of Pearl" in the GO bar)


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Lynn
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