Sentences with phrase «diatom cell»

The oil can be as much as a quarter of the total mass of a diatom cell, and if a way could be found to efficiently wrest it from diatoms, he adds, a hectare of «diatom cultivation could produce 10 to up to 200 times the oil that is produced by soybean cultivation,» Ramachandra says.

Fresh diatom cell corpses littered the seafloor as well, and the research team believes that much of the bloom ended at the bottom as a layer of fluff.

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This is the case of diatoms, algae consisting of a single cell surrounded by a silica skeleton, recommended by the European Union and Switzerland as one of the ideal bioindicators for rivers and lakes.

Diatoms between 0.01 and 0.02 mm, consisting of a single cell surrounded by an artificially colored silica skeleton.

But silicon (an element that has properties both of metals and non-metals) seems to occur only in bioinorganic compounds, such as those in the silica shells of the single - celled algae diatoms.

The researchers propose creating a biological solar panel, which will contain diatoms instead of photovoltaic cells.

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.

Electron micrograph of an Antarctic sea ice diatom, Amphiprora, with attached bacterial cells, illustrating the association between diatoms and bacteria in the Southern Ocean ecosystem

Diatoms are one of the single - celled types of algae.

However, elevated atmospheric CO2 concentrations and ocean acidification may also have an adverse impact on diatom growth, causing a decrease in cell size and possible further changes in phytoplankton composition.

Meanwhile, increasing temperature and ocean warming may lead to the reduction of diatom production as well as cell size, inducing poleward shifts in the biogeographic distribution of diatoms.

A Yale team has looked to nature to help solve a design problem, using tiny fossilized creatures called diatoms to improve the light absorption of organic solar cells.

Moser is an expert in diatoms, which are microscopic algae that have cell wall made of opaline silica.

Diatoms are microscopic algae that have cell wall made of opaline silica.

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.

The predicted continuous warming trend of the ocean surface temperature is expected to favour the growth of smaller phytoplankton cells (picophytoplankton replacing large diatoms) that in turn would also favour small - sized zooplankton species (Li et al. 2009).