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Definitions of diatoms in various dictionaries:
noun - microscopic unicellular marine or freshwater colonial alga having cell walls impregnated with silica
noun - any of a class of algae
DIATOMS - Diatoms (diá-tom-os "cut in half", from diá, "through" or "apart"; and the root of tém-n-, "I cut".) are a major group of algae, specifically mic...
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| Algae |
| Plankton particles |
| Some plankton |
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| May 12 2016 Wall Street Journal |
| Feb 19 2006 Newsday.com |
| Feb 12 1999 New York Times |
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| (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a micrograph of an organism with radial symmetry on the monitor.) A grungy type of earth used as industrial filler is named for these beautiful symmetrical algae from which it's made |
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| Plural form of diatom. |
| a single-celled alga which has a cell wall of silica. Many kinds are planktonic, and extensive fossil deposits have been found. |
| A single-celled alga which has a cell wall of silica. Many kinds are planktonic, and extensive fossil deposits have been found. |
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| Diatoms (diá-tom-os "cut in half", from diá, "through" or "apart"; and the root of tém-n-, "I cut".) are a major group of algae, specifically microalgae, found in the oceans, waterways and soils of the world. Diatoms number in the trillions: they generate about 20 percent of the oxygen produced on the planet each year; take in over 6.7 billion metric tons of silicon each year from the waters in which they live; and contribute nearly half of the organic material found in the oceans. The shells of dead diatoms can reach as much as a half mile deep on the ocean floor; and the entire Amazon basin is fertilized annually by 27 million tons of diatom shell dust transported by east-to-west (easterly) transatlantic winds from the Bodélé Depression, the bed of Lake Mega Chad in the Sahara once covering much of the African Sahara.Diatoms are unicellular, and occur either as solitary cells or in colonies, that can take the shape of ribbons, fans, zigzags, and stars. Individual cells range in si |