Sentences with phrase «diatoms make»

«The analysis shows that diatoms make up the most important source of carbon for polar cod,» explains Kohlbach.

Not exact matches

As an algae biologist I was initially struck by the cover graphic: a stained glass window made of diatoms, the tiny planktonic creatures whose exquisite outer shells are visible only through the electron microscope.

Diatomaceous Earth — Diatomaceous earth is a natural material made from ground up fossilized diatoms, which were once tiny aquatic organisms.

It's naturally occurring soft sedimentary rock made of fossilized hard shelled diatoms.

A new study shows that at least two diatom species make compounds that reduce hatching rates when eaten by tiny shrimplike animals called copepods.

By contrast, the shell of the diatom Cyclotella pseudostelligera is silica, the material that makes up sand, glass, and quartz.

When they examined the water column for silica - the compound that makes up the hard supporting structure of diatoms — they didn't find much.

One key to the whole experiment's success turns out to be the specific diatoms involved, which use silicon to make their shells and tend to form long strands of cellular slime after their demise that falls quickly to the seafloor.

If diatoms could be made to similarly secrete the oil they produce, then it could be easily harvested.

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.

Diamotaceous Earth is a fine white powder, made from crushed shells of microscopic aquatic creatures called Diatoms.

Diatomaceous Earth (DE) is made of diatoms from fresh water shells that have fossilized over millennia.

Diatomaceous earth is made up of fossilized diatoms, a mineral - like, powdery non-toxic substance which is 90 % silica.

Diatomaceous earth is an all - natural powder made from the fossilized remains of tiny, hard - shelled algae called diatoms.

Diatomaceous earth (DE) is a fine white powder that's made up of fossilized diatoms, a type of ancient algae.

Thus any process which tends to favor the growth of organisms made from silicate, such as diatoms, over organisms made from carbonate, such as the coccolithophorids, will tend to lower the atmospheric CO2 concentration — and vice versa — even if the total organic biomass formed in the surface layer and sinking from that layer remains constant.

Foram shells are made up of calcium carbonate (CaCO3) while diatom shells are composed of silicon dioxide (SiO2).