chitin

Ah, what I mean is, do you open the chitin and shift the inside?

The light glittered from the chitin on the back of his fingers.

It hurt almost as much to pick out the fragments of chitin.

Chitin fragments had cut deep into my foot and lower leg.

I saw him put his weight on that leg and the chitin tore out.

Her voice was a soft whisper from one chitin thigh.

Chitin has also proven useful for several medical and industrial purposes.

Then he collected the pieces of chitin into a heap nearby.

The chitin broke in a fine star pattern where the steel entered.

Snails within this family make and use love darts made of chitin.

Tough chitin parted like gauze to either side of the blade.

Most recent studies point out that chitin is a good inducer for defense mechanisms in plants.

The highly ordered chitin determines the orientation of the crystals.

This left a crab shell made entirely of translucent chitin.

Who knows but I don't doubt for a second the abundance of natural chitin in the wild.

A thin film of chitin covers the entire dorsal surface.

Short of stripping off his chitin and boiling him like a lobster, there is little else we can do.

The smell of burning chitin filled the area, choking them and making him cough.

All three sections are enclosed within an external skeleton made, primarily, of chitin.

Its surface was tessellated by a regular pattern of chitin plates.

Without chitin, an insect fails to develop into the next stage and eventually dies.

Shaped like claws, and razor sharp, they could rip through chitin.

The bud scar contains much more chitin than does the rest of the parent cell wall.

Chitin is not dissolved by the higher acid content.

The force of the bite is suitable for shearing chitin and bone.