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  • Thumbnail for 99 Flake
    A 99 Flake, 99 or ninety-nine is an ice cream cone with a Cadbury Flake inserted in the ice cream. The term can also refer to the half-sized Cadbury-produced...
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    easily be repaired. Flake tools could be sharpened by retouch to create scrapers or burins. These tools were either made by flaking off small particles of...
    5 KB (810 words) - 19:07, 13 May 2022
  • Flake is a British brand of chocolate bar currently manufactured by British chocolate company Cadbury, owned by Mondelez International, consisting of...
    13 KB (1,353 words) - 02:54, 23 January 2024
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    figures began to flake and fade. The lacquer covering the paint can curl in fifteen seconds once exposed to Xi'an's dry air and can flake off in just four...
    82 KB (8,259 words) - 04:21, 23 May 2024
  • fishery off the coast of Victoria was established. Until that time, shark was generally an incidental catch rather than a targeted species. Flake rapidly...
    2 KB (286 words) - 02:41, 3 July 2023
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    of the wheat kernels. As the wheat is fed into the mill, the rollers flake off the bran and germ while the starch (or endosperm) is cracked into coarse...
    13 KB (1,487 words) - 06:37, 22 April 2024
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    oxides, the hydroxides do not adhere to the bulk metal. As they form and flake off from the surface, fresh iron is exposed, and the corrosion process continues...
    28 KB (3,043 words) - 06:37, 19 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Jeff Flake
    Jeffry Lane Flake (born December 31, 1962) is an American politician and diplomat who is the United States ambassador to Turkey. A member of the Republican...
    96 KB (9,074 words) - 18:00, 19 May 2024
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    hydrides that can expand the sample up to 70% in volume, which in turn flake off as a powder that is pyrophoric. It is radioactive and can accumulate in...
    141 KB (15,142 words) - 23:03, 18 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Fresco-secco
    buon fresco, fresco-secco paintings are less durable. The colors may flake off the painting as time goes by, but this technique has the advantages of...
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  • Thumbnail for Galvanization
    water pressure problems and eventual pipe failure. These plaques can flake off, leading to visible impurities in water and a slight metallic taste. The...
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  • Thumbnail for Lithic flake
    lithic flake is a "portion of rock removed from an objective piece by percussion or pressure,": 255  and may also be referred to as simply a flake, or collectively...
    10 KB (1,434 words) - 16:08, 28 December 2023
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    in materials which can fail by delamination. In concrete, surfaces can flake off from improper finishing. If the surface is finished and densified by troweling...
    20 KB (2,747 words) - 04:15, 23 May 2024
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    that the ink would adhere to the surface. Even so, ink would gradually flake off of the membrane, especially if it was used in a scroll that was frequently...
    22 KB (2,541 words) - 19:35, 21 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Levallois technique
    of lithic flakes from a prepared lithic core. A striking platform is formed at one end and then the core's edges are trimmed by flaking off pieces around...
    20 KB (2,419 words) - 23:42, 29 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Sphinx water erosion hypothesis
    crystallises. The expanding crystals cause fine layers of surface limestone to flake off. It is accepted by Schoch et al. that this mechanism is evident in many...
    25 KB (2,951 words) - 14:18, 3 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for Ribes alpinum
    and light grey, later it becomes brownish grey and eventually starts to flake off. The buds are scattered, compressed and light green to white. The leaves...
    3 KB (299 words) - 10:12, 20 August 2022
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    obtain delicate flakes, which could then be baked. W. K. Kellogg persuaded his brother to serve the food in a flake form. Soon the flaked wheat was being...
    105 KB (9,176 words) - 20:57, 13 May 2024
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    Dandruff is a skin condition that mainly affects the scalp. Symptoms include flaking and sometimes mild itchiness. It can result in social or self-esteem problems...
    22 KB (2,129 words) - 19:21, 15 May 2024
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    their surface. If exposed to severe freezing conditions, the surface may flake off due to the expansion of the water. This effect can also be seen in terracotta...
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