What is going to be fun is to see what happens to that anodised coating over time.

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The work was inspired by tears, which, when grouped together, form a coating over our eyes with multiple functions.

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Matching its older sister's 10.1-inch Gorilla Glass screen, there's now an all-over splash resistant coating (inside and out), with those intriguing cut-off corners we've seen already there to aid the ergonomics of handling the slab.

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Several workers came over and spread the macadam with long rakes until a thick glistening coating covered the wooden planks and they were no longer visible.

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Following that tradition, the brainiacs over at the University of Reading have developed a new nano-material electrode coating based on the cellular structure of plants.

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Their industrial coating business alone grew 27%, with higher volumes in all regions year over year.

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While its optical design is carried over from the previous-generation model, the new-generation lens features Sony's proprietary Nano AR Coating on optical surfaces.

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