Crossword-Solution: FLAKING 7 letters, 10 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 15

Therefore the depth of roughening and ultimate flaking of the granite surface indicated the depth to which this temperature occurred and helped to determine the average ground temperatures in the instant following the explosion.

The distance ratio of this effect between Nagasaki and Hiroshima was about the same as for the flaking of polished granite.

There were the usual blue-and-white-striped jail-made rugs on the uneven floor; the usual glass-studded Amritsar _phulkaris_ draped on nails driven into the flaking whitewash of the walls; the usual half-dozen chairs that did not match, picked up at sales of dead men’s effects; and the usual streaks of black grease where the leather punka-thong ran through the wall.

They begin to shoot not far from the city.” “The dears—they always used to!” Dick snuffed the smell of parched dust, heated iron, and flaking paint with delight.

All the pleasant morning we slid smoothly along over the plains, through thin--not thick--forests of great melancholy gum trees, with trunks rugged with curled sheets of flaking bark--erysipelas convalescents, so to speak, shedding their dead skins.