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Enduring Ornament [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
This is an essay about rust. Iron usually plays the part of strength, stubbornness, and impenetrability, but rust registers the dimension of time in the material, reminding us that it always carries the potential for its own decomposition. While great expense is incurred to stave off iron’s oxidization, we read the uselessness that rust precipitates as
Amelia Groom, M. Ty
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Ornamental Zingiberaceae.

open access: yesRevista Brasileira de Horticultura Ornamental, 1995
The family Zingiberaceae (in which I include Costus and other spiral gingers) is the largest and most widespread in the Zingiberales. The forty nine genera and about 1400 species occur throughout the warm parts of the world from 32 degrees North lattitude to 30 degrees South lattitude and from sea level to 4200 meters altitude.
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Ornamentalism

open access: yes, 2011
"A pleasurable and illuminating collection that sets out the important implications of accessories and shows how conspicuous consumption and ornamental ostentation aim to secure status and display affiliation. "Ornamentalism" explains how accessories carry heavily laden symbolic and mnemonic significance, given their age, beauty, and value."---Richard ...
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Performance Study of Graphene Oxide as an Antierosion Coating for Ornamental and Heritage Dolostone (Adv. Mater. Technol. 18/2023) [PDF]

open access: bronze, 2023
Rebeca Martínez‐García   +10 more
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“Ornamentals”

open access: yesHortScience, 1987
Abstract Three cheers for Tukey for pointing out why we should no longer use the word “ornamentals” (HortScience 22:9, Feb. 1987) to describe landscape plants, with their many functional uses that transcend the merely ornamental. Some of us have been uncomfortable with the word for a long time.
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Clinico-histopathological and phylogenetic analysis of protozoan epibiont Epistylis wuhanensis associated with crustacean parasite Lernaea cyprinacea from ornamental fish in Iran [PDF]

open access: gold, 2023
Hooman Rahmati‐Holasoo   +6 more
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Evaluation of Wastewater Treatment by Microcosms of Vertical Subsurface Wetlands in Partially Saturated Conditions Planted with Ornamental Plants and Filled with Mineral and Plastic Substrates [PDF]

open access: gold, 2019
Luis Carlos Sandoval Herazo   +4 more
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