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Examples of flaking

flaking

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

Basic flaking procedure and simple spatial relations are sufficient.
The rendering on the walls is flaking off, the weary roofbeams are buckling under the weight of the roofs, the wooden bridges are worn out.
Bifacial points are pointed tools shaped from large flake blanks by collateral bifacial percussion and pressure flaking.
It is also an essential trait for the cereal processing industry for malting, milling and flaking.
While flaking the artifact, the knapper has only one point of view.
Application of a simple flaking procedure, without any image manipulation, could not have produced the kinds of three-dimensional symmetries evident on these artifacts.
It is distinguished from its neighbors, lined up tightly but crookedly on either side of a dirt track, by a swath of flaking red paint.
It is even possible for the iterative application of a specific flaking procedure to produce a final core with a regular shape, completely unintended.
Desquamation was graded as dryness of skin, moderate flaking, severe flaking or patchy moist desquamation.
In sum, what we know of late handaxes indicates that a flaking strategy alone (biomechanics) could not have produced these artifacts.
Effective flaking is a specialized form of perception-though-action that allows for the discovery and stabilization of larger scale patterns (strategies) in necessarily variable reduction processes.
Podocarpus oleifolius was the only conifer and the only species with flaking bark.
The ventral pathway associated with object identification and shape recognition is minimally activated, implying that shape is not a significant component of the basic flaking task.
Flaking leaded paint appears to be the cause of this.
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