diatoms

Diatomaceous earth, a powder-like dust made of tiny marine organisms called diatoms, can be used to reduce damage from soft-bodied insects and slugs.

Pest management 2009

Mostly tiny plants called diatoms, but quite possibly a few Barney-like creatures went into the mix, like Stegosaurus, Brontosaurus and other giant reptiles that shared the Jurassic period with all those diatoms.

Barbara Ehrenreich: Liposuction: The Key to Energy Independence 2008

The algae-like plants, called diatoms, act as microscopic razors, slicing through the exoskeletons of any insect unfortunate enough to cross through it.

With Bed Bug Population Growth, Questions on Size, Scale, and Solution to the Problem 2007

And it is because of the flowering of astronomical numbers of these diminutive plants, known as diatoms, that the surface of waters of the ocean are in reality boundless pastures.

Undersea (historical) Rachel Louise Carson 2007

The towering walls of the trench are bare and rocky in places, but overwhelmingly they are covered with sediment that builds up as dead plankton, the glass skeletons from algae called diatoms, and the excrement from all the marine life swimming above, descend and settle.

The Guardian World News Ian Sample 2011

SYDNEY - A new study by scientists has determined that a type of algae called diatoms have been key to the evolution of the diversity of whales.

Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7 Ani 2010

A type of algae, called diatoms, have been key to the evolution of the diversity of whales, according to a new study.

UnderwaterTimes.com News of the Underwater World 2010

February 19th, 2010 SYDNEY - A new study by scientists has determined that a type of algae called diatoms have been key to the evolution of the diversity of whales.

Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7 Ani 2010

One question was whether the relatively silicate-poor waters of the more northerly 55° region would allow plankton known as diatoms to form silicon skeletons.

Autoblog Green Domenick Yoney 2010

Sydney, Feb 19: A new study by scientists has determined that a type of algae called diatoms have been key to the evolution of the diversity of whales.

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