In a typical one-liter water sample taken
from an outbreak of red-tide, the dinoflagellate
cells responsible for the calamity
(such as Karenia brevis, for example)
manage to poison the watery surroundings
in which they reside even as the dinoflagellate
cell themselves occupy less than
2/1000.ths
of one percent of the total volume that
is
theoretically-available to them.
In this image, all one million
dinoflagellate
cells in a one-liter sample of red-tide
could
fit into the volume denoted by the dot
while the remaining 99.998 72%
of the
available volume remains unoccupied
