An infrared analysis was performed within the range 650-4000 [cm.sup.-1] using a Fourier Transform Infrared (FTIR) Spectrometer (Spectrum 100, PerkinElmer, USA) to identify the functional groups present on the pine cone shell. Besides, a Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) (JSM-6390, JEOL, USA) was utilized to disclose the surface morphology of the biosorbent.

Taguchi experimental design ([L.sub.9]([3.sup.3]) orthogonal array) was used to optimize the dye biosorption by the pine cone shell. The selected factors and their levels for this biosorption study were biosorbent particle size (63-125, 125-250, and 250-500 [micro]m), dye concentration (40, 60, and 100 mg [L.sup.-1]), and contact time (30, 75, and 120 min).

Lying there, on the tile, Tumaini slobbering on his cheek, he felt the cone shell, the snail inching its way, blindly, purposefully, toward the door.

The shell collector boiled the cone shell in the chai pot and forked the snail out with a steel needle.

Cassowary feathers, bird of paradise plumes, and cone shells ground down to make breast pendants, found their way from Papua New Guinea into the islands, while pearl-shell and dugong harpoons, as well as spears and spear-throwers from Cape York, moved north and into Papua New Guinea (Moore 1979, 301).

David, village chief of Belen in Calabanga, narrates that the storm surge dumped tons of bugitis (tiny cone shells) on 114 ha of rice fields on their village and the adjoining Barangay Paolbo.

Many particularly -- cowries, topshells and cone shells -- play host to hermit crabs.

Although blind, the professor deftly navigates his marine environment while handling extremely toxic cone shells. When he finds a potential cure for malaria, his hermetic life is disrupted by reporters and family.

13), but the sponge also protects the dolphin from the deadly cone shells that hide in the sand.

"Cone shells do exist in Shark Bay, but we rarely see them and didn't see them in our own sponging efforts," says researcher Janet Mann.

Chapter 5, "Dangerous Waters," is where some of the more notorious marines species are treated, including the sea wasp (Chironex fleckeri) on which Berra bestows the title "most venomous animal known." Blue-ringed octopus, cone shells, stonefish, and firefish (also known as lionfish and turkeyfish) are other poisonous creatures presented.

Deadly seashell Cone shells are familiar to most people as holiday souvenirs.

Gone were the cone shells and cowries, the turtles, the schools of dolphins Imagine our shock.