Comment on Scientist Discover How to Convert CO2 into Powder That Can Be Stored for Decades

• hperrin@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Pollen is a powdery substance produced by most types of flowers of seed plants for the purpose of sexual reproduction.

  - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pollen

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  • wildginger@lemmy.myserv.one ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    My guy, read your own link. Those are tri celled organisms, wikipedia even drew you a pretty colorful picture.

    Just because the mediocre website used the word powdery doesnt make the living organisms a powder.

    If I describe a leaf as feeling leathery, that does not make the leaf leather.

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    • hperrin@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Do you think that part of the definition of living organism is that it can’t be a powder? Also, do you think sperm are living organisms?

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      • wildginger@lemmy.myserv.one ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Pollen isnt sperm. Pollen is the heavily regressed secondary generation. All plants follow alternate generations.

        Pollen is the male semiclonal offspring of a dominant angiosperm form. The female lives within the heart of flowers, where they wait for pollen males to arrive and enseminate them.

        And, yes, the definition of powder is a dry solid that sheers into fine particles. Pollen isnt a dry solid, its a bunch of organisms that are just very small. You could turn pollen into powder by killing, crushing, and drying it. But thats the same as sawdust.

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