SSS 2011-01-25
时间：2018-12-24 作者：英语课 分类：Scientific American(一)月
This is Scientific American’s 60-Second Science. I’m Cynthia Graber. This will just take a minute.
The Chesapeake Bay could get helped by a new antipollution expert: farmed oysters 2. For decades, the Chesapeake has been plagued by excess nutrients 3, such as nitrogen, from agricultural and municipal run-off. The nutrients feed algal blooms, which suck up the oxygen in the water. And those oxygen-poor waters no longer support the Bay’s rich biodiversity.
The Chesapeake used to be home to wild oysters, but 99 percent of them are gone. The tasty bivalves are known for removing excess phytoplankton from water and sequestering 4 nutrients in their shells and flesh. So scientists from Virginia Commonwealth 5 University measured the nutrient-chomping potential of the Eastern oyster 1 Crassostrea virginica.
They tested dried tissue and shells from oysters in two aqua-culture sites, (which) turns out that if a farmed oyster grows to 76 millimeters, it’s a pretty effective water filter. Eight large-scale oyster farms could clean a ton of nitrogen from the Chesapeake. The study was published in the Journal of Environmental Quality.
Such farming won’t make the bay pristine 6 again, but the researchers say the oysters are effective at cleaning the area where they’re grown. And so for a biologically better Chesapeake, pass the hot sauce.
Thanks for the minute. For Scientific American’s 60-Second Science, I’m Cynthia Graber.
- I enjoy eating oyster; it's really delicious.我喜欢吃牡蛎，它味道真美。
- I find I fairly like eating when he finally persuades me to taste the oyster.当他最后说服我尝尝牡蛎时，我发现我相当喜欢吃。
- We don't have oysters tonight, but the crayfish are very good. 我们今晚没有牡蛎供应。但小龙虾是非常好。
- She carried a piping hot grill of oysters and bacon. 她端出一盘滚烫的烤牡蛎和咸肉。
- a lack of essential nutrients 基本营养的缺乏
- Nutrients are absorbed into the bloodstream. 营养素被吸收进血液。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- Once installed the wood at further reducing carbon through the sequestering process. 本木料一旦植入，将通过一系列物理化学过程进一步有效降低碳量。 来自互联网
- Sequestration and dispersion force of different kinds of sequestering a-gent are tested. 本文分别测定了几种不同类型络合剂的络合能力和分散能力。 来自互联网
- He is the chairman of the commonwealth of artists.他是艺术家协会的主席。
- Most of the members of the Commonwealth are nonwhite.英联邦的许多成员国不是白人国家。