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Six example sentences with abrasive, each labelled with its topic.
The restorer chose the gentlest abrasive available, since anything coarser would lift the varnish and the paint beneath it.
Art
Polishing a lens begins with a coarse abrasive and ends with a powder finer than flour, applied in water.
Technology
Never scrub a seasoned pan with an abrasive; the black layer you spent months building disappears in one wash.
Cooking
Restorers cleaned the limestone facade with a soft abrasive blown at low pressure, so the carved letters kept their edges.
Architecture
Any mineral can serve as an abrasive against a softer one, which is why diamond dust cuts every other stone.
Science
Egyptian craftsmen used quartz sand as an abrasive, dragging it under copper saws to slice through granite blocks.
History
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