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Regardless of whether the plant dies naturally, is burned or harvested, the carbon is trapped in microscopic phyotoliths - a Greek word for 'plant rock', or what Prof Sullivan calls 'plant stones'.

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  1. adjective Too small to be seen by the unaided eye but large enough to be studied under a microscope.
  2. adjective Of, relating to, or concerned with a microscope.
  3. adjective Exceedingly small; minute: "The activities of men . . . were reduced to a microscopic scale” (John Hersey).
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  • The amount of difference was microscopic, and I wrote it up to emphasize its ridiculous splitting of hairs and the fact that you can't take some of these crackpots seriously. —  SCIENCE FICTION ADVENTURES MAGAZINE
  • Apart from the prawn cocktail being so natty it was practically microscopic, the grub was lovely. —  The Vatican Rip-Jonathan Gash- Lovejoy 05
  • Despite the chances of Gallas being dropped being microscopic, the defender is on his last warning and Johan Djourou must get his chance to usurp the lazy captain's position, being 6ft 4in also helps his cause. —  Soccer Blogs - latest posts
  • Regardless of whether the plant dies naturally, is burned or harvested, the carbon is trapped in microscopic phyotoliths - a Greek word for 'plant rock', or what Prof Sullivan calls 'plant stones'. —  northernstar.com.au: The Northern Star
  • Objects which exist, but are sensed directly only as microscopic, or sub-microscopic, are typical of this. —  LaRouche's Latest
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  1. from French microscopique = Spanish Portuguese Italian microscopico, from New Latin microscopicus, from microscopium, microscope: see microscope.
 

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