| 1. | Slate is a fine-grained metamorphic rock that splits into thin, smooth-surfaced layers.
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| 2. | Pigments from the lower painting appear through cracks in the surface layer.
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| 3. | The surface layer of hydrogen on nickel can be released by heating.
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| 4. | In the surface layers, oxygen is supplied by exchange with the atmosphere.
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| 5. | Also it is the space between the surface layer and the aquifer.
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| 6. | Water redistributed to the near surface layers may also influence plant nutrient availability.
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| 7. | Under the thin surface layer of soil is the impervious gray granite bedrock.
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| 8. | The surface layer is snow in various forms, with air gaps between snowflakes.
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| 9. | A "'superhydrophobic coating "'is a nanoscopic surface layer that repels water.
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| 10. | Recent research indicates that accumulated ions are present in the ocean's surface layers.
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