Most conodonts, or euconodonts, are tooth-like phosphatic structures with a shiny outer layer and an inner core.
What remains is a shiny layer of nearly pure gold on top of a harder, more durable copper-gold alloy sheet.
The strip includes the dull outer layer, or epidermis, and a small portion of the shiny inner layer, or dermis.
When these coins struck, the force of striking would produce a thin shiny layer of silver on the surface, which would quickly wear away.
Inside the mask is a shiny layer of metal.
Two sets of sensors are positioned above and below the micro structure, one over the mask of Mr. Bell's face, and one under, shining into the inside shiny layer.
It lets doctors see below the shiny top layer of skin.
Even Nikki's smug, aggressively normal older sister peels back a few shiny layers to reveal uglier realities.
His eyes were watering, and a shiny layer of red-tinged phlegm coated his lower face from nose to chin.
Eutroclus nodded to Jamie, face beaming under a shiny layer of sweat, and took the pole from him.