Instead they applied bright colors directly to a smooth, hard layer of zinc-white or gesso.

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The constant exposure strips the hard, protective layer of the tooth called the enamel and could dissolve the entire tooth.

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By the time the coaches had the athletes stop, many had their their hands blistered hard, through at least one layer of skin.

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Helyar expects a 10%-15% shortage of 300mm wafers in the second quarter, with a more than 20% shortfall in BT-based substrates, with additional shortages of hard-drives, oscillators, multi-layer ceramic capacitors and other parts.

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It draws out the solvents from the bottom-most layer of polish, leaving all the layers dry and hard, while conditioning cuticles with almond and jojoba oil.

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Because not only did he lock and encrypt his entire hard drive, but once you'd unlock that, there was another layer of security inside.

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It is ready for storing and sharing digital media with a large 250GB(1) hard drive and a convenient slot-load 8x DVD Super-Multi Double Layer DVD-RW with DVD-RAM.

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It is hard enough to get him to wash at all, so if there were one more layer to it, I can't imagine.

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