Stabilized
Stabilizing corn cobs or pen blanks is a process that involves putting the corn cob or pen blank in a very high pressure vat with Acrylic resin heated to a very high temperature for many hours which forces the item to absorb the resin which actually turns the item into a piece of Acrylic.
You actually wind up with a plastic corn cob.
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Titanium Nitride
Titanium Nitride looks like 24 karat gold but is a very tough and permanent finish. So tough that this finish is also put on metal drill bits to help make them last.