Crossword-Solution: DIATOMS 7 letters, 16 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

These two varieties of oysters no doubt consume other forms of food, but living diatoms constitute by far the greatest part.

The _diatoms_ cannot multiply without light, and the ice formed since February can be distinguished in the pressure-ridges by its clear blue colour.

There are plants, indeed, of the lower sort (such as diatoms), in which the whole multiplication takes place in this way, and with great rapidity.

The Diatoms are so called from their faculty of multiplying themselves indefinitely by splitting into two; and so rapidly is this process performed, that in a month a single diatom may produce a thousand millions.

Now, it is remarkable that these microscopic shells of Diatoms are not unfrequently found in the ejections of volcanoes; while it is generally supposed that, in the case of those situated near the sea, eruptions are caused by the formation of explosive steam consequent on the access of sea-water to the reservoirs of molten lava lying underground.