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- noun large colonial bacterium common in tropical open-ocean waters; important in carbon and nitrogen fixation
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However, in reality it's a little blue-green algae, known to the science world as trichodesmium, a natural occurrence along the Queensland coastline each year.
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However, in reality it's a little blue-green algae, known to the science world as trichodesmium, a natural occurrence along the Queensland coastline each year.
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