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Forum: SPS Keepers 01/30/2005, 07:37 PM
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Posted By Atoller
Totally false.

Totally false.
Forum: SPS Keepers 01/30/2005, 06:28 PM
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Posted By Atoller
A. cervicornis

A. cervicornis
Forum: SPS Keepers 01/30/2005, 11:48 AM
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Posted By Atoller
http://backreef.homestead.com/files/bottomtank.jpg

http://backreef.homestead.com/files/bottomtank.jpg
Forum: Reef Discussion 01/29/2005, 08:56 PM
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Posted By Atoller
It's also well known that the process for making...

It's also well known that the process for making and mixing batches can leach large amounts of plasticizers, and leave them soluble in the salt batch. This is what appears to have happened.
Forum: SPS Keepers 01/25/2005, 11:01 AM
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Posted By Atoller
Have you ever seen stony corals growing on wood?

Have you ever seen stony corals growing on wood?
Forum: SPS Keepers 01/19/2005, 11:13 PM
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Posted By Atoller
Are you an echo or am I just high?

Are you an echo or am I just high?
Forum: SPS Keepers 01/19/2005, 10:56 PM
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Posted By Atoller
Neither of you "got it". It's quite easy to...

Neither of you "got it". It's quite easy to calculate what the minimum and maximum concentration of aspartic acid could have been in the experiment if the specific activity (radioactivity), in Bq per...
Forum: SPS Keepers 01/19/2005, 06:13 PM
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Posted By Atoller
Assuming the maximum activity, 925 MBq/mmol. In...

Assuming the maximum activity, 925 MBq/mmol. In an 8 mL beaker, the activity was 833 Bq/mL. That means the total activity would be 6664 Bq. That's 7.20 x 10^-6 mmol total of aspartic acid in the 8 ml...
Forum: SPS Keepers 01/19/2005, 04:12 PM
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Posted By Atoller
That's a big help. :rolleyes:

That's a big help. :rolleyes:
Forum: SPS Keepers 01/19/2005, 04:10 PM
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Posted By Atoller
Actually, I am curious about the concentration. ...

Actually, I am curious about the concentration. Anybody have lit that would have the specific activity (Bq/mol) of C14 in Aspartic acid?
Forum: SPS Keepers 01/19/2005, 11:25 AM
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Posted By Atoller
Bomber, Bq/ml is Becquerel per mL. A becqueral...

Bomber, Bq/ml is Becquerel per mL. A becqueral the metric unit for radioactivity, it's the decay of one nucleus per second.
Forum: SPS Keepers 01/18/2005, 07:53 PM
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Posted By Atoller
Re: SHOOTING BLIND IN THE DARK

I said no such thing.
Forum: SPS Keepers 01/18/2005, 10:58 AM
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Posted By Atoller
Several issues still exist with any kind of...

Several issues still exist with any kind of organic matrix model.

No well defined organic structure has ever been isolated (such as it has with mollusk shells) from coral skeleton. As Cohen put...
Forum: SPS Keepers 01/18/2005, 10:10 AM
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Posted By Atoller
Show me the article that definitively...

Show me the article that definitively demonstrates the necessity of corals to take up aspartic acid. (hell, the Ferrier-Pages article you posted even states outright that shallow corals get all of...
Forum: SPS Keepers 01/17/2005, 09:03 PM
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Posted By Atoller
A sterile beaker. ;)

A sterile beaker. ;)
Forum: SPS Keepers 01/17/2005, 08:48 PM
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Posted By Atoller
My blood sugar is rising catastrophically. ...

My blood sugar is rising catastrophically.

Oreooooooooooooooos (spiked with C14)
Forum: SPS Keepers 01/17/2005, 08:44 PM
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Posted By Atoller
A sterile beaker ;)

A sterile beaker ;)
Forum: SPS Keepers 01/17/2005, 08:43 PM
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Posted By Atoller
Especially hard bodied prey. Zooplankton can be...

Especially hard bodied prey. Zooplankton can be nice and squishy or hard and shelly.
Forum: SPS Keepers 01/17/2005, 06:10 PM
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Posted By Atoller
Jerel, they dosed C14 spiked amino acids, then...

Jerel, they dosed C14 spiked amino acids, then did assays for uptake. The problem is that the article never delves into the mode of uptake. IE, sure, the water had the DFAA in it (hello, sterile,...
Forum: SPS Keepers 01/17/2005, 12:29 PM
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Posted By Atoller
Also, while you're at it, how about a citation...

Also, while you're at it, how about a citation that shows that cyanobacteria only produce the D enantiomer?
Forum: SPS Keepers 01/17/2005, 12:18 PM
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Posted By Atoller
No sir, I guess I don't. Have a citation? ...

No sir, I guess I don't. Have a citation?

Don't get me wrong, I know it's there. We use the rapid racemization as a paleo indicator.
Forum: SPS Keepers 01/17/2005, 12:16 PM
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Posted By Atoller
See: Cohen AL, McConnaughey TA (2003) A...

See:
Cohen AL, McConnaughey TA (2003) A Geochemical Perspective on Coral Mineralization. In: Biomineralization. Dove PM, Weiner S, deYoreo JJ (Eds) Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry Vol. 54.
Forum: SPS Keepers 01/17/2005, 12:14 PM
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Posted By Atoller
How so?

How so?
Forum: SPS Keepers 01/17/2005, 12:06 PM
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Posted By Atoller
Habib, if this is the case, the role and origins...

Habib, if this is the case, the role and origins of organic matrices in coral skeletogenesis has NOT been characterized and is simply not known. It's also likely that they serve directional or...
Forum: SPS Keepers 01/17/2005, 11:55 AM
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Views: 37,730
Posted By Atoller
They do, as a source of N. :D

They do, as a source of N. :D
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