If alabaster with a smooth, polished surface is washed with dishwashing liquid, it will become rough, dull and whiter, losing most of its translucency and lustre.
Although the addition of resin in the modified materials has further improved their translucency, they are still rather opaque and not as esthetic as composite-resins.
The primary enhancements in these releases included the use of a new graphics engine which allows for translucency and anti-aliasing when displaying maps.
Other factors contributes to general appearance of rice are cleanliness, free from other seeds, vitreousness, translucency, chalkiness, color, damaged and imperfect kernel.