alveolus necklace | gold vermeil meta-catalog and metabolism

and metabolism

Pendant size and visual scale

the silver for daily wear and the gold for the moment

the scarab symbolized rebirth and creation because the Egyptians observed beetles rolling balls of dung and interpreted this as a metaphor for the sun's movement across the sky

Before 1986

alveolus necklace | gold vermeil meta-catalog and metabolismAlveolus necklace gold vermeil Roughly 480 million alveoli per pair of human lungs, with a combined surface area of about 70 square metres and a capillary blood barrier 0. 5 micrometres thick. Every breath crosses this membrane twice. The gold vermeil version is the same alveolus as the silver, in a warmer key. The Anatomy of the Alveolus The alveolus is the terminal sac of the respiratory tree, sitting downstream of the bronchioles where gas exchange