Diatoms: Creators of Glass Castles

• Almost 300 years ago the Dutchman Anton van Leeuwenhoek created a model of microscope with 300-fold magnification and saw a strange brownish "boat" crawled in the slide. He called it the "oat animal"
• It would be fair to say that every other breath of oxygen that we breathe comes from diatoms, those invisible workers
• In this sense the frustule structure of many diatoms is perfect from the point of view of an engineer and designer

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