Abstract: A silicic acid component supplying agent for algae to be added to water in which algae requiring silicic acid to grow live, in order to supply a silicic acid component to the algae. The agent includes a silicic acid gel, as a main component, obtained by previously causing a reaction between an alkali metal silicate and a mineral acid within a system other than the water in which the algae live.
Type:
Application
Filed:
May 30, 2007
Publication date:
May 14, 2009
Applicants:
Incorporated Administrative Agency Fisheries Research Agency, Fuji Silysia Chemical Ltd