{"id":26931,"date":"2019-12-09T09:00:14","date_gmt":"2019-12-09T15:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=26931"},"modified":"2020-06-28T18:38:20","modified_gmt":"2020-06-28T23:38:20","slug":"word-of-the-day-521","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2019\/12\/09\/word-of-the-day-521\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>\u00a0Snottites<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Fewer studies have investigated microbial communities growing on the walls of sulfidic caves. Among these, most of the studies investigated the geomicrobiology of snottites, which are extremely acidic biofilms clinging to overhanging gypsum cave walls or ceilings.\u00a0<em>[&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/journals.plos.org\/plosone\/article?id=10.1371\/journal.pone.0220706\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Geomicrobiology of a seawater-influenced active sulfuric acid cave<\/a>,&#8221; <\/em>Ilenia M. D\u2019Angeli and Daniele Ghezzi, <strong>PLoS One<\/strong><em>]<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Noted in\u00a0<em>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg24432560-800-why-the-hunt-for-alien-life-is-under-way-far-beneath-earths-surface\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Why the hunt for alien life is under way far beneath Earth\u2019s surface<\/a>,\u201d\u00a0<\/em>Donna Lu<em>,\u00a0<strong>NewScientist\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>(16 November 2019, paywall):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>On the day I join them, [Heidi] Aronson\u2019s mission is to collect clear, teardrop-shaped secretions that hang from the walls and ceilings of the cave. Geologists call these snottites, and their resemblance to the dripping tip of a runny nose is uncanny. Because the snottites are full of bacteria and extremely acidic, Aronson hopes they will contain the sulphur producers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yep, that&#8217;s four <em>WotD<\/em> entries from one magazine article.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Snottites: Fewer studies have investigated microbial communities growing on the walls of sulfidic caves. Among these, most of the studies investigated the geomicrobiology of snottites, which are extremely acidic biofilms clinging to overhanging gypsum cave walls or ceilings.\u00a0[&#8220;Geomicrobiology of a seawater-influenced active sulfuric acid cave,&#8221; Ilenia M. D\u2019Angeli and Daniele \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2019\/12\/09\/word-of-the-day-521\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26931"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29230,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26931\/revisions\/29230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}