For both plants and the shipworm, they can take inert, non-active carbon and nitrogen in the air and create building blocks. From Wordnik.com. [Cool New Science Discoveries] Reference
His boots trod again a damp crackling mast, razorshells, squeaking pebbles, that on the unnumbered pebbles beats, wood sieved by the shipworm, lost. From Wordnik.com. [Ulysses] Reference
A shipworm infestation claimed his ship, Vizcaina, leaving Columbus to struggle through his last expedition to the New World, which ultimately ended with three of his four ships sinking. From Wordnik.com. [Books: Columbus's Last Voyage] Reference
Hazel-rah, Rick - One of the things Cochrane's father invented was apparently a coal-tar covering for ship's hulls to prevent shipworm, but the Admiralty wouldn't take it up because the shipyard contractors liked the regular income from repairing ships - "the worm is our friend", as one of them told Cochrane's father. From Wordnik.com. [Cochrane: Britannia’s Sea Wolf, by Donald Thomas. Book review] Reference
Tunnel from the tiny shipworm: he saw how the little creature perforated the wood with its well-armed head, first in one direction and then in another, till the archway was complete, and then daubed over the roof and sides with a kind of varnish; and by copying this work exactly on a large scale, Brunel was at length enabled to construct his shield and accomplish his great engineering work. From Wordnik.com. [How to Get on in the World A Ladder to Practical Success] Reference
The shipworm is in fact no worm at all, but a greatly elongated clam. of the clam here. From Wordnik.com. [Popular Posts Across MetaFilter] Reference
The shipworm forms up to 30 cm deep tunnels in all kinds of wood, for example in boats and piers. From Wordnik.com. [innovations-report] Reference
The dreaded shipworm is moving into the Baltic Sea, threatening artefacts of the area's cultural heritage. From Wordnik.com. [innovations-report] Reference
L. pedicellatus, a shipworm researchers will study to discover enzymes produced by bacteria inside the worm's gills. From Wordnik.com. [biopact] Reference
"The warmer temperatures mean that the shipworm is less stressed and can thus tolerate lower salinity," she tells the newspaper. From Wordnik.com. [Latest News - UPI.com] Reference
The Anna Maria is part of a vast graveyard of ill-fated ships hidden in the murky waters of the Baltic Sea, protected from the shipworm that destroys wooden wrecks in saltier oceans. From Wordnik.com. [The Charleston Gazette -] Reference
The group is also exploring ways of protecting the shipwrecks from shipworm destruction by covering them with permeable geotextile fabrics and bottom sediment. see all Science News stories. From Wordnik.com. [Latest News - UPI.com] Reference
One of the objectives is to develop methods to protect the shipwrecks, for example by covering them with geotextile and bottom sediment, and another is to try to predict to which areas the shipworm is likely to spread in the future. From Wordnik.com. [innovations-report] Reference
The shipworm is capable of completely destroying large maritime archaeological finds in only 10 years, and while it has avoided the Baltic Sea in the past, since it does not do well in low salinity water, it can now be spotted along both the Danish and German Baltic Sea coasts. From Wordnik.com. [innovations-report] Reference
Sir Isambert Brunel took his first lessons in forming the Thames Tunnel from the tiny shipworm: he saw how the little creature perforated the wood with its well - armed head, first in one direction and then in another, till the archway was complete, and then daubed over the roof and sides with. From Wordnik.com. [Self help; with illustrations of conduct and perseverance] Reference
It has a life expectancy of 3-4 years and is The shipworm can survive a salinity of 4-6 practical salinity unit (PSU) for short periods of time (the salinity of the Stockholm archipelago is around 5 PSU), but needs at least 8 PSU to be able to reproduce. difficult to discover since it hides inside the infested wood. From Wordnik.com. [innovations-report] Reference
'The shipworm has for example attacked shipwrecks from the 1300s off the coast of Germany, and we are also starting to see its presence along the Swedish coast, for example at the Ribersborg cold bath house in Malmö,' says Christin Appelqvist, doctoral student at the Department of Marine Ecology, University of Gothenburg. From Wordnik.com. [innovations-report] Reference
A damp crackling mast, razorshells, squeaking pebbles, that on the unnumbered pebbles beats, wood sieved by the shipworm, lost Armada. From Wordnik.com. [Ulysses] Reference
There are 65 species of the shipworm. From Wordnik.com. [innovations-report] Reference
About the shipworm. From Wordnik.com. [innovations-report] Reference
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