The Portuguese left it unoccupied and the Dutch came across it in 1598 and named it for the executive head of the Netherlands, stadtholder, Maurice of Nassau. The island received the Latin version of his name and became Mauritius.The Dutch tried to settle the island and failed. It was taken over by the French in 1721. They fought the British over it but it remained French, more or less, ...
as a second component.In 1985, however, a variety of cyanobacteria called "Prochlorothrix" was located in ponds in the Netherlands, and these did contain both chlorophy11-a and chlorophy11-b. It seemed possible that this variety was a descendant of the original cyanobacteria that became the chloroplasts found in the cells of green plants.To check on this, it was necessary to study the fine ...
of course) the water formed would empty into the sea, and the sea level would rise by about 200 feet. Places like the Netherlands, Bangladesh, Delaware and Florida would be completely under water.There's even the possibility of a vicious cycle. As the water grows warmer, its ability to dissolve carbon dioxide grows smaller. That means that some of the carbon dioxide it now holds in solution ...
is likely to be more than 15 billion years than less.Astronomer Harvey Butcher, at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands, has tackled the problem from another angle. Analyzing the light of a particular star can tell us what chemical elements are present in it. Some of these elements are radioactive;the ages of those stars can be estimated from the amount of elements present that are ...