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whats-in-a-sentence · 11 months
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The photograph shows the crater lake on New Zealand's White Island, with the green colour arising, in part, from the presence of this alga.
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"Chemistry" 2e - Blackman, A., Bottle, S., Schmid, S., Mocerino, M., Wille, U.
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tenth-sentence · 11 months
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Cyanidium caldarium has managed to adapt to the highly acidic conditions by being able to pump acid out of its cells and using acid-resistant polysaccharide molecules to protect the cells from the acidic environment.
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"Chemistry" 2e - Blackman, A., Bottle, S., Schmid, S., Mocerino, M., Wille, U.
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