Word: pigmenting
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...famous series of Women; they are rose colored, billowy and amiable. The colors are of astounding brilliance. There can be few colorists alive today who can project, with a few judicious swipes, the same sense of wellbeing. Yet there are plenty of moments when the torrent of hot, sweet pigment - the raspberries, icy blues, or anges and minty greens - clogs...
Wick said that the first step is to identify a chemical trait unique to the cancerous cells such as the presence of L-dopa. Both melanoma and neuroblastoma are jet-black tumors due to the pigment-producing abilities of their host cells, he said...
...dopa is the starting material for the synthesis of melanin, a pigment commonly found in skin cells affected by melanoma, a form of skin cancer. In the brain cells affected by neuroblastoma, another form of cancer, L-dopa serves as a starting material for the manufacture of norepinephrine, a chemical signal in the nervous system...
...garments and provided with genuine glass eyes. The craftsmanship is meticulous, not to say obsessive. It produces not images but model people-androids without the electronic guts. Each plastic scalp is the sum of myriad transplants; thousands of strands of fuzz are pricked into the cold, immobile forearm; the pigment on the skin replicates flesh down to the very last pore, zit, shaving nick and burst vein, while every T shirt and pair of overalls displays exactly the right degree of grunge, wear and spattering. Consequently, the presence of these figures becomes almost hallucinatory. "Speaking likenesses" that cannot speak...
...work on a one-volume supplement, which was published in 1933. Now they are beavering away on a four-part, 50,000-entry supplement to the supplement, and they have just come out with Volume II, which takes the ever-changing language from H for "Haarlem" (a blue pigment containing alumina) through N for "Nzima" (an African language spoken in Ghana...