Oyster

::For the smartcard used in London, England, see Oyster card.

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The name oyster is used for a number of different groups of molluscs which grow for the most part in marine or brackish water. Inside a usually highly-calcified shell is a soft body. The gills filter plankton from the water. Strong adductor muscles are used to hold the shell closed.

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Oysters are highly prized as food, both raw and cooked, and have a reputation as an aphrodisiac due to the high content of zinc they contain. Perhaps the definitive work on oysters as food is Consider the Oyster, by M. F. K. Fisher.

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Smartcard: A smart card, or integrated circuit(s) card (ICC), is defined as any integrated circuitry embedded into a flat, plastic body. Although there are a diverse range of applications, there are two broad categories of ICCs. Memory cards contain only non-volatile memory storage components, and perhaps so...

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