fishman830
Active Member
I find myself trying to find the haratio nelson article in the smithsonian magazine an di see somthing titeld GAS guzzlers and some nice looking things.. do i read on and those a pics of diatoms.
Here's part of the article
"The container holds the fossilized shells of countless diatoms, single celled algae that inhabit oceans, lakes, and other bodies of water. Like other phytoplankton, diatoms covert carbon dioxide, water and sunlight into food and realease oxygenl unlike phytoplanton, diatoms are encased in porous intricatly structured, often beautiful silica shells. Diatoms were all teh rage in victorian times, when genteel folk gathered around the parlor microscope to marvel at the jewel --like creatures. And ever since 1866, when Swedish chemist Alfred NObel first mixed fossilized diatoms with nitro glycerin and rolled the stuff into a stick he called dynamite, the uses fro diatoms shells hav been, well, exploding
Here's part of the article
"The container holds the fossilized shells of countless diatoms, single celled algae that inhabit oceans, lakes, and other bodies of water. Like other phytoplankton, diatoms covert carbon dioxide, water and sunlight into food and realease oxygenl unlike phytoplanton, diatoms are encased in porous intricatly structured, often beautiful silica shells. Diatoms were all teh rage in victorian times, when genteel folk gathered around the parlor microscope to marvel at the jewel --like creatures. And ever since 1866, when Swedish chemist Alfred NObel first mixed fossilized diatoms with nitro glycerin and rolled the stuff into a stick he called dynamite, the uses fro diatoms shells hav been, well, exploding
