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Noun(1) a light soil consisting of siliceous diatom remains and often used as a filtering material

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(1) After the plasma was treated in a water bath at 60 [degrees] C for 30 min, the lipid extraction was done with Hydromatrix, a diatomite , in isopropanol and n-hexane.(2) Diatoms have an extensive fossil record going back to the Cretaceous; some rocks are formed almost entirely of fossil diatoms, and are known as diatomite or diatomaceous earth.(3) The richest sources of diatom fossils are deposits of their skeletons known as diatomite , or diatomaceous earth.(4) As diatoms collect on the ocean floor and are buried deeper and deeper, they are compressed and changed from a form known as diatomite , which is used in swimming pool filters, to opal.(5) By this time, both groups were abundant and diversified globally, so much so that diatomite is a common marine sediment of the Miocene.
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1. diatomaceous earth
2. kieselguhr


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