Comment on Scientist Discover How to Convert CO2 into Powder That Can Be Stored for Decades
wildginger@lemmy.myserv.one 11 months agoMy 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.
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?
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.