Synthetic Nacre is just around the corner

[davi_el_mejor]

http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2012/07/scienceshot-no-mother-needed.html

For the first time, researchers have successfully grown artificial mother-of-pearl, the iridescent, multilayered material that lines the shells of mollusks such as abalone. Several teams have tried—and failed—to create the material in the lab, and researchers have previously only been able to produce it by recrystallizing mother-of-pearl, also known as nacre, that had been extracted from shells

 

[iLander]

Oh, for crying out loud!

Here we had a simply authenticity test, the tooth rub, and someone has to go and ruin it!