How to Use diatom in a Sentence

diatom

noun

• The fluffy green globes—supersize diatoms as large as a head of cabbage—are one of the planet’s most unusual plants.
  — National Geographic, 8 Sep. 2016
• Yee found that the same proton pump also helps diatoms make their tough silica shell.
  — Kevin Hartnett, Quanta Magazine, 6 July 2023
• In roughly a third of the ocean, iron is so rare that its absence can hinder the growth of diatoms and other phytoplankton.
  — Emily Underwood, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Jan. 2020
• Because small fish in the lakes eat zooplankton, a plunge in the diatom numbers would cause fish populations to crash.
  — Tim Folger, National Geographic, 17 Nov. 2020
• These diatom shells, combined with the chemical compositions and the size ranges of the grains, all suggest that a tsunami occurred when the skull was buried.
  — Charles Choi, Discover Magazine, 25 Oct. 2017
• The Pseudonitzchia species of algae, forms of diatoms, more commonly create red tides off the coast of California.
  — Jenny Howard, National Geographic, 5 July 2019
• Under this scenario, a spider in the Cenozoic era would expire and become entrapped in a diatom mat.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 26 Apr. 2022
• At least three species of dinoflagellates and one diatom species are responsible for the toxic mess of red tides in the United States.
  — Jenny Howard, National Geographic, 5 July 2019
• When a krill dies, the powerful enzymes in its belly that dissolve diatoms turn on and swiftly autodigest the body.
  — Lucy Jakub, Harper's magazine, 2 Mar. 2020
• Diatoms, on the other hand — another type of phytoplankton found in the Black Sea — can make the water look somewhat darker.
  — Elizabeth Howell Space.com Contributor, Fox News, 15 June 2017
• For instance, some of the evidence for the climate hypothesis comes from pollen and diatoms from the bottom of nearby Lake Ossa.
  — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 27 Feb. 2018
• The algal cell pictured here in red, a Coscinodiscus diatom, is 90 micrometers across, or one tenth the width of a ballpoint pen’s tip.
  — Leslie Nemo, Scientific American, 19 Feb. 2021
• Unfortunately, Di Muro’s mother had washed his clothes after the evening of the murder—but diatoms can often survive a trip through the washing machine.
  — Jordan Michael Smith, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Jan. 2024
• From diatoms encased in glass to dinoflagellates that can cause toxic algae blooms, phytoplankton are a diverse group of algae that live in the ocean.
  — Stephanie De Marco, Los Angeles Times, 18 Sep. 2019
• The team will expand their research to imaging other fossil deposits to discover whether the diatom mats are also linked to preservation more broadly.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 26 Apr. 2022
• Going a step further, Martin proposed that using iron to trigger diatom blooms might help combat global warming.
  — Emily Underwood, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Jan. 2020
• Diatomaceous earth is an organic powder that consists of the fossilized remains of tiny aquatic organisms, called diatoms.
  — Joseph Truini, Popular Mechanics, 8 Jan. 2019
• Dinoflagellates and diatoms are the two main types of phytoplankton classes, according to the National Ocean Service.
  — Anthony Robledo, USA TODAY, 3 Sep. 2023
• Streams less influenced by glaciers have more diverse communities with more green algae and cyanobacteria, but with fewer cold-tolerant diatoms.
  — Lesley Evans Ogden, Discover Magazine, 7 Apr. 2023
• Brackish diatoms indicate lower lake levels because the water becomes saltier as the water evaporates.
  — Emily J. Beverly, Quartz Africa, 26 Jan. 2020
• Paleosols are typically full of pollen and microfossils of simple organisms, such as diatoms, a kind of algae that can indicate climate conditions.
  — Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 20 May 2019
• Goff and other researchers also look for microscopic marine organisms like diatoms and foraminifera, ancient DNA from marine life, changes to geochemistry, and, as in the Atacama, unexpected boulders.
  — Nathaniel Scharping, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Feb. 2023
• The evidence, the two men said in the article, was clear: industrialized humanity had changed the composition of Earth’s atmosphere and oceans and had modified the landscape and biosphere—including diatom populations.
  — Jan Zalasiewicz, Scientific American, 1 Dec. 2016
• Their observations supported the endosymbiotic theory of how the diatoms acquired the extra membrane around their chloroplasts.
  — Kevin Hartnett, Quanta Magazine, 6 July 2023
• Algae diatoms need nitrate for biochemical processes, including the production of domoic acid.
  — Tommy Wright, The Mercury News, 7 June 2017
• Like foraminifera, each diatom species is extremely sensitive to environmental conditions.
  — Jack Tamisiea, WIRED, 24 Sep. 2022
• At right, a colonial collodarian radiolarian comprised of many individual cells, each with a central capsule, sharing a common jelly. Thalassionema nitzschioides is a diatom, a major group of algae and one of the most common types of phytoplankton.
  — Discover Magazine, 3 June 2015
• Prior studies suggested the diatom mats would have created an anaerobic environment, thanks to extracellular polymeric substances.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 26 Apr. 2022

Last Updated: 14 Oct 2024