Word: chitinized
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...recently-molted cockroach sports a shiny new chitin shell, but he's still an ugly bug. The tower of education's "massive walls and large windowless areas" shone like alabaster in the reproduction. In fact they will be the familiar mottled red, broken most months by bare, scraggly Ivy vines. Before many years in the local air, the red will lose its luster, the mortar will turn dull grey...
...mixture of quick "knockdown" pyrethrum and DDT has been used in many preparations, notably the U.S. Army's "aerosol" insect bombs, now being sold to U.S. householders. But Activated DDT is supposed to penetrate an insect's chitin (outer skin) and reach its nervous system more surely than previous mixtures...
Lobster Silk. The U. S. Department of Commerce received a report that one Dr. G. Kunike had been saving lobster and crab shells, bringing the chitin or bony structure thereof into colloidal solution, passing it through a filter press and drawing it out into artificial silk threads of greater tensile strength than the cellulose imitation. Optimists saw a new industry arising, out of fish-house garbage cans...
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