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Article: Small wonders THE BROADER PICTURE
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- May 28, 2000
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Considering that they account for roughly a quarter of the
vegetable matter on earth, it's odd that diatoms don't have a higher
profile. They are, as well as being ubiquitous, remarkably beautiful.
But most people wouldn't recognise them if you held a great plateful
of them right in front of their faces.
This may have something to do with the fact that the average
diatom is between 2 and 200 microns long - that's around 1,000 times
smaller than in the images shown here. But size isn't everything,
especially if you exist in sufficient quantities. Diatoms, single-
celled plants from one of the very lowest rungs on the evolutionary
ladder, are everywhere - well, not quite everywhere, but ...
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