Sentences with phrase «contain diatoms»
The researchers propose creating a biological solar panel, which will contain diatoms instead of photovoltaic cells.
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Cores taken from under the open ocean are often stained green from microscopic plants called diatoms that settle to the seafloor after dying, but this core contained none.
The slide contained around a hundred crushed diatom shells.
Instead it contained chlorophyll, much of it from diatoms.»
In tropical countries like India with an abundance of sunlight, biofuel - producing solar panels containing local diatoms could be placed in every village.
Hitchhikers Dust from the Mojave Desert (above left, 2,500 x magnification) contains an array of mineral grains, as well as a diatom, a single - celled aquatic organism commonly carried by dust.
Unlike most regions of the global ocean which do not contain sufficient nitrogen or phosphorus for sustained phytoplankton growth, diatoms in the remote waters of McMurdo Sound were starving from lack of iron and deficiency of vitamin B12.
The diatom Pseudo-nitzschia granii isolated from the North Pacific Ocean that contains the protein proteorhodopsin, which helps these regulators of climate change survive.
Psudeo - nitzschia «Pseudo-nitzschia is a marine planktonic diatom genus containing some species capable of producing the neurotoxin domoic acid (DA), which is responsible for the neurological disorder known as amnesic shellfish poisoning (ASP).»
DE is composed of finely ground Diatoms which are one celled microscopic algae whose walls consist of two parts and contain a mineral called silica.
At any rate, when «normal» rain containing natural carbonic acid falls upon silicon - containing sedimentary rocks formed over eons from the shells of tiny marine creatures — radiolarians, diatoms and some sponges — this «siliceous» rock combines with the carbonic acid to form ions of bicarbonate.
report that ocean sediment cores containing an «undisturbed history of the past» have been analyzed for variations in PP over timescales that include the Little Ice Age... they determined that during the LIA the ocean off Peru had «low PP, diatoms and fish,» but that «at the end of the LIA, this condition changed abruptly to the low subsurface oxygen, eutrophic upwelling ecosystem that today produces more fish than any region of the world's oceans... write that «in coastal environments, PP, diatoms and fish and their associated predators are predicted to decrease and the microbial food web to increase under global warming scenarios,» citing Ito et al..