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• The balls are made of leather, for easy gripping, and filled with plastic granules to prevent them from bouncing.

• The zona pellucida, Guraya reported in 1978, is a barrier around the egg made of proteins and carbohydrates, and when one sperm breaches it, cortical granules rearrange themselves to shut out all other sperm.

• The dish is traditionally made by steaming the granules in a couscousière over a simmering stew until light and fluffy to absorb the stew’s flavors before being served together.

• It is lobate in form and is divided by lines into areas in each of which a deeply-stained granule is situated.

• This is an extremely small granule, on the very limit of visibility, the chemical composition of which is not known very well.

• This granule is the water bottle drained to the last drop, is the nurse's breast emptied of all its contents.

• With intense dry heat, as in toasting, the granule expands and opens, and the contents change to dextrin.

• The ovum destined to become a new creature, is originally only a cell with a contained granule.