For the same reason, you should never buy clams (or any other live mollusks) with a broken shell. When you get the clams home, make sure to clean the grit off the clams, especially if you're ...

The common clam shell (Venus mercena-ra)—100 parts of ... When used before burning, owing to their compact texture, they are acted upon but slowly by the ordinary agents to which they are ...

Like oysters and mussels, clams are bivalves, a kind of mollusk that's encased in a shell made of two valves, or hinging parts. And that shell comes in all different sizes. There are small clams ...