abiotic substances

  • 1abiotic — [ā΄bī ät′ik] adj. [ A 2 (sense 3) + BIOTIC] of nonliving substances or environmental factors …

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  • 2Abiotic component — In biology, abiotic components are non living chemical and physical factors in the environment. Abiotic phenomena underlie all of biology, but at the same time both are better forgotten in the direct analysis of life as such. More generally, the… …

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  • 3abiotic — referring to non living structures, substances, factors, environments, etc …

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  • 4Synthetic life — and artificial life (not to be confused with the field of Artificial Life) are terms used for attempts to recreate life from non alive (abiotic) substances. Currently such life does not exist, and the potential for its existence is dubious. Much… …

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  • 5Wet alife — is artificial life created in vitro as opposed to the normally implied in silico when using the broader term alife. Generally wet alife involves experiments with chemical substrates in water or another solvent (which is where the wet in wet alife …

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  • 6Decabromodiphenyl ether — IUPAC name 2,3,4,5,6 Pentabromo 1 (2,3,4,5,6 pentabromophenoxy)benzene …

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  • 7Glossary of environmental science — This is a glossary of environmental science.Environmental science is the study of interactions among physical, chemical, and biological components of the environment. Environmental science provides an integrated, quantitative, and… …

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  • 8Abiogenesis — Primordial soup redirects here. For the board game, see Primordial Soup (board game). Origin of life redirects here. For views on the origins of life outside the natural sciences, see Creation myth. Pre Cambrian stromatolites in the Siyeh… …

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  • 9Biogeochemical cycle — A commonly cited example is the water cycle. In ecology and Earth science, a biogeochemical cycle or substance turnover or cycling of substances is a pathway by which a chemical element or molecule moves through both biotic (biosphere) and… …

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  • 10Ecosystem — An ecosystem is a natural unit consisting of all plants, animals and micro organisms(biotic factors) in an area functioning together with all of the non living physical (abiotic) factors of the environment.Christopherson, RW (1996) Geosystems: An …

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