However, the lacquer dried with a dull finish, rather than a high gloss.

Dull finish: A paper finish with little or no gloss.

The buttons on the clothes were made from a sharp-edged metal of dull finish.

Finishes are available in high gloss blue, or a non-reflective dull finish.

Dust lightly with talcum powder which gives a dull finish.

Matt - dull finish on paper, inks or photographic prints.

Cards from this set have a duller finish on the front due to no gloss being applied.

Both the walls and the cubit-square stone floor tiles were polished to a dull finish.

Although Zanardi was fast, he was not completely to blame for the dull finish.

The dull finish of the pistol's barrel was the clearest object David could distinguish.

Inside was a control panel; above this was a white metal sphere with a dull finish, about the size of a basketball.

Foil Stamping is available in a wide range of colours with both high gloss and dull finishes.

Exposed surfaces are polished to a dull finish.

Still, "Golden Child" is unable to buff its dull finish successfully.

The result is a dull finish.

When dead cells build up on the skin, the dull finish that results is especially visible on black skin.

A good decoy shouldn't pitch and roll when the water is rough, and it should have a dull finish.

It was a real dull finish, and the paint was like it had never been waxed.

Pure lead is a heavy, soft, metal which is dark bluish-grey in colour and has a dull finish.

It will have a dull finish.

Despite many attempts to provide alternatives they remain however the most effective way of restoring dull finishes particularly on aluminium utensils.

It had a grayish surface with a dull finish and a somewhat resilient touch (perhaps like soft leather).

However, it should also have had a dull finish, and perhaps have other blemishes from birds and the like.

Coloured Matt Paper These materials have a dull finish and again are available in a wide range of colours.

Such hat-helmets were either covered in cloth, or blackened and given a dulled finish so as to resemble felt.

It is bluish white, semitransparent with a dull lustre.

Aluminum's dull lustre results from a thin coating of oxygen that forms when it is exposed to air.

Its tetragonal crystals are a translucent blue, white, colorless or pink with a vitreous to dull lustre.

It is translucent to opaque with a vitreous to dull lustre, and is coloured dark yellow to yellowish-brown.

A generalization is that minerals with metallic or adamantine lustre tend to have higher specific gravities than those having a non-metallic to dull lustre.

At times it looked like a ball of fire at others it had a dull lustre and small particles of fire would shoot from the great glowing mass.

ALUMINUM Pure aluminum is a relatively soft, silvery white metal with a dull lustre that is caused by a thin coating of aluminum oxide.

Soybean seeds that have a dull lustre or moderate bloom (B) may also have abundant seed surface protein, namely, an abundance of the hydrophobic protein from soybean (HPS).

An F2 population of 82 individuals from a cross of OX281 (dull lustre, abundant HPS) and Mukden (shiny lustre, trace amounts of HPS) provided a basis for inheritance studies and genetic mapping analysis.

However, more commonly, it is formed by the dehydration of torbernite, which causes internal stress and breakage within the crystal lattice, resulting in crystals composed of microscopic powder held together using electrostatic force, and having a lighter green colour, opaque diaphaneity, and a relatively dull lustre.