When algae are exposed to UV light the cell wall is destroyed. The result of this is that algae clump together. Prior to clumping a single algae cell has a diameter of about 4 microns (4 millionths of a metre or very very small).
Virginiaâs laws refer to the crimes of assault and assault and battery (sometimes referred to as battery). Battery is the actual infliction of injury on another. For example, kicking someone in the face and breaking the personâs nose is battery.
Regardless of which definition the jurisdiction uses, the broader definition of assault, or separate definitions for assault and battery, a crime of this nature in the first-degree (or aggravated) is classified as a felony.