• As it happens, the coffee-like stains that he and his colleagues had been trying to remove with fast-drying solvents was actually the solution to his problem, since they remained in contact with each other as they dried and preserved conductivity, but left about 95 percent of the light through the holes in the center, thereby making the screen itself almost fully transparent.

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  • By 20:30 in the evening, the sky is a blanket of stars and milky-white stains.

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  • Beer stains on the dark-green corduroy, which her mother would detect, if she sniffed at them.

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  • The walnut top of his colonial style desk was marred by water stains from a second-story flood the office suffered months earlier.

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  • The designer, who died Sunday in Miami, needed to hide juice-stand stains.

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  • They waddle down to the water to wash off the rust-colored guano that stains their pelts and produces a pungent odor that within days becomes expected with each landing.

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  • On the white-painted ceiling high above I could see the brown stains where water had found its way in past winters through cracks in the nineteenth-century lead roof and had dripped into buckets and bowls hastily placed on the floor.

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  • Many toothpastes on the market claim to have 'whitening' properties - meaning that they may remove stains, rather than change the natural colour of the teeth.

    BBC: Whitening toothpastes 'don't work'

  • Farmer also made product improvements--he started offering work wear with fabrics that resisted wrinkles and stains.

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  • Sadid, a middle-aged local tuk-tuk driver, took me to a collection of flat rocks covered in white stains near Crocodile Rock.

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  • Wang Yulan, a 56-year old retiree, moved into her new city-built apartment in a 33-floor Chongqing tower three months ago and immediately found a broken cupboard hinge, leak stains on both sides of her short foyer and badly misaligned window sills.

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  • The all-pervasive sea water still left its mark, seeping into the frames and discoloring them with salt stains and algae.

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