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He collects diatoms from sites along the Ashuelot River, taking scrapings from rocks and stashing the samples in vials. The samples are transferred onto slides and slid under a microscope, ready for ...

However, under a microscope, their glitters and colors differ depending on how the light strikes them, like a kaleidoscope. Oku became fascinated by the beauty of diatoms when he was a graduate ...

Diatoms appear golden brown to the naked eye. However, when seen under the microscope, they display a beautiful range of shapes, colours and ornamentation. There are estimated to be more than 20,000 ...

Colonies appear to the naked eye as an algae-like slime, but under a microscope, individual diatoms become magical, their silica walls forming symmetrical, lacy patterns that stand out starkly ...

Indeed, they’re as ubiquitous in microbiology research as lab mice are in human-health studies. A diatom under an electron microscope. Credit: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research ...

The silicate framework of a diatom does not conduct electricity. For a scanning electron microscope image it would therefore have to be coated, which can result in details of the structure not ...

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