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patina

puh tee nuh

  • n  a fine coating of oxide on the surface of a metal

  • He came up with a new process called "patina fingerprinting," which purports to show that a different bone box that popped up in the hands of an Israeli collector some years .
  • First, he has the elegant patina of age.
  • The trouble with this kind evidence is, of course, that the formation of patina isn't yet explainable in science everyone can agree on.
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  • Jeff Dunham in San Jose Mercury News
    People listen more closely, and there could be conflict, just like in a sitcom,Dunham says. "The one thing I pride myself on is I'm trying to put a fresh patina on an old, tired and sad art and make it hip and fun again."
  • Diane Lane in USA Today
    It's impossible to generate artificial patina, which takes a long, long time to be developed. It normally takes a hundred years in nature to be developed. Technology has not developed yet any technology to make it in a short time in a way that you... Oded Golan http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oded_Golan&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNFL4EEty2P6KikdKdI71MTApYcQ-w Jerusalem Post http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite%3Fcid%3D1244371080800%26pagename%3DJPost%252FJPArticle%252FShowFull&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNEBmWWNAIUx4AN0C041QN2RI0E3SQ Jun 12, 2009 72748 97320 patina I saw it the other night (on cable) and was freaking out," Lane says. "It is a beautiful oil painting of a film." "It just needed the patina of time to be fully appreciated."

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