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These shells are uniformly characterized by lower than average dissolution indices on the shell's outer surface (spire), and a gradation towards higher than anticipated wet weights, and moderately-high degrees of chalkiness on the inner shell surface/body whorl.
The best potting mixture is rich organically, neutral or tending towards chalkiness. They don't need a lot of heat, but do require good natural light.
Since past breeding didn't favor chalkiness, it may also have lowered lysine content, Schaeffer notes.
Zhuang, "Quantitative trait loci for grain chalkiness and endosperm transparency detected in three recombinant inbred line populations of indicarice," Journal of Integrative Agriculture, vol.
While milled rice yield was not, brown rice yield, head rice recovery, rice with chalkiness, and chalky ratio were affected by variety and fertilizer.
Fortification poses a huge challenge to product formulators: Most essential vitamins and minerals bring with them textural issues such as chalkiness, grittiness, and bitterness, or they may have metallic and other objectionable tastes and flavors.
These costumes, along with the gouache's chalkiness and the tension of the compositions, suggest religious frescoes or icons.
We might consider that it allays the mid-palate chalkiness of feel and a certain kinesthetic "irritation" at rear palate that have always set Tokaji apart from Sauternes, Rhein and Cotnari (Romania) botrytis wines.
The soup bowl duly wiped clean of its sweet, rich orange contents and the bitter chalkiness of the goat's cheese souffle polished off, it was on to the next course.
And this fits the bill, its mineral chalkiness and nettly gooseberry tang leaving the tastedbuds dancing.
Creamy white color with a slight chalkiness. Pleasant, slightly sweet, mild oat flavor.
Subsequently, its plants became small, the seed setting rate, head rice rate and transparency were reduced, rice chalkiness area was increased, and rice amylose content was significantly decreased (Wang et al., 2013).
Honey, barley sugar and a lovely chalkiness - a great vintage, unusually intense and ripe for a Kabinett.
Mouthfeel can be defined using descriptors such as lubricity, oiliness, smoothness, pulpiness, flavor release, flavor masking, texture, shininess, cling and chalkiness. These and other defining terms, when combined, paint a picture of the desirable mouthfeel sensations that today's sophisticated consumer demands.
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