rusticle

One of the biggest rusticle recovered in 1996 was preserved.

In a iron related bacteria test, sometimes a rusticle would grow hanging down from the ball in the top of the test.

At the same instant, the foot of the rusticle detached and floated down in a circular manner into a collection tray on the Nautile.

Each rusticle is a complex assemblage of structures displaying many characteristics normally associated with tissue differentiation in higher organisms.

In the laboratory, it has been possible to manipulate the position, form and rate of rusticle growth by the application of electro-magnetic forces to the steel.

On the Titanic there is evidence that these fine crystalline interfaces have become focused sites for covert intrusions and the expansion of rusticle growth.

Clearly iron is being harvested from the Titanic by the biomass, sometimes referred to affectionately as "the Rusticle Park".

On the basis of this survey, the density and size of rusticle growths were projected on the outside of the bow.

A rusticle is a formation of rust similar to an icicle or stalactite in appearance that occurs underwater when wrought iron oxidizes.

The rusticle consists of up to 35% iron compounds including iron oxides, iron carbonates and iron hydroxides.

Dissolution proceeds so quickly, now, that we suspect something in the deep ocean environment is speeding up rusticle growth - something other than the Titanic's iron and sulfur.

A gentle touch of the midpoint of the rusticle caused a burst of red dust, outward for some 30 centimeters, from a fixed site (presumably a duct).

Dissection of a rusticle reveals a somewhat randomized relationship between the various porous, plate-like, and water-bearing structures with threads very commonly found interconnecting these various components.

Cristina Sánchez-Porro et al. first isolated the bacterium in 2010 from a sample of rusticle obtained from the RMS Titanic in 1991.

Experiment 4: Survey, in a scientific manner, the port and starboard sides of the bow section concentrating on the promenade deck that appeared to be suffering from a most severe rusticle infestation.

The word rusticle is a portmanteau of the words rust and icicle and was coined by Robert Ballard, who first observed them on the wreck of the Titanic in 1986.

A rusticle team has now been assembled and the research is coming along quite nicely, we are glad to report - with each question answered promising to become an infinite diverging regress of new questions.

Clearly the physical pressure of the robotic arm caused some hydraulic pressures within the rusticle structure which were relieved by the venting of liquid through a duct on the opposite side to the point of impact.

If, as Henrietta Mann has suggested, rusticles are able to metabolize dead diatoms and other nutrients found in "sea snow", then increased rates of rusticle growth may be, at least in part, due to human intervention.

The 2013/14 season was filled out with multiple guest companies including Theatre Rusticle, Pleiades Theatre, Cahoots Theatre Company, Cabaret Company and inDANCE.

Recovered fish populations will, in their own turn, thin the deep scattering layer again - which, in turn, will decrease the nutrient-rich snowfall, probably slowing rusticle growth and decreasing the rate of the Titanic's deterioration.

And strangest of all is to peer into the heart of a rusticle, and to recall that for eleven years, in virtually every photograph of the wreck site, these "creatures" were staring us straight in the nose.

The outer surface of a rusticle is smooth red in appearance from the iron (III) oxide, while the core is bright orange due to the presence of crystals of goethite (a hydrated iron oxide).

When scientists were able to retrieve a rusticle, it was discovered that it was far more complex than had been imagined, with complex systems of roots infiltrating the metal, interior channels, bundles of fibers, pores and other structures.

As we write, the rusticle garden flourishes down there, shadowy and silent, 2.4 miles under the sea, taking up the iron from the Titanic while festooning its decks, clinging to the hull and infiltrating every nook and cranny in the shattered ship.