February 11, 2000
Studying the Organic Fog of the Sea
Colloids, the most abundant particles in the ocean, may offer clues to global warming
Twelve thousand feet beneath the ocean's surface, the water is pitch black and very still and cold. Tiny white particles drift downward, as if it has started to snow. The flakes -- bits of algae and remnants of tiny animals -- are the strange dust of the sea.
Stranger still is the glue that holds most of those "snowflakes" together. Researchers think the glue comes
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