Sentences with phrase «type of diatom»
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As an IIE - SRF fellow at the University of Gothenburg, Al - Handal is again able to use his expertise in taxonomy of marine diatoms, a type of microalgae, with the added advantage of direct access to a scanning electron microscope, which he didn't have in Iraq.
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Diatoms [a type of shelled algae] are big carbon sinkers because of their stony shells and powered buoyancy.
Diatoms are a favorite tool among ecological and evolutionary researchers because their hard silica shells are often well preserved — and they have been found in virtually every type of water body on Earth, both fresh and salt, from oceans to farm ponds, from the Great Lakes to the West African coast.
The first took place from June to August 2011, when large numbers of diatoms (a type of microscopic alga) bloomed near the surface, then sank rapidly to the seafloor.
The researchers learned that although the water appeared teeming with a particular type of phytoplankton, called diatoms, the diatoms were malnourished.
Diatoms are one of the single - celled types of algae.
Diatomaceous Earth (DE) is a finely powdered natural fossilized form of diatoms, a type of algae.
DE is, as mentioned, a white powder naturally occurring from the fossils of diatoms (a type of algae found in river bed and lake beds).
Diatomaceous earth (DE) is a fine white powder that's made up of fossilized diatoms, a type of ancient algae.
The yellow spots are diatoms, a type of algae.