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Terrapsychology is a word coined by Craig Chalquist to describe deep, systematic, trans-empirical approaches to encountering the presence, soul, or "voice" of places and things: what the ancients knew as their resident genius loci or indwelling spirit. This perspective emerged from sustained ...
PH over 7; emits hydroxyl ions. Also called “basic. ” It neutralizes the acids it combines with chemically.
Industry:Biology
The watery layer through which light penetrates to nourish photosynthetic marine organisms like plankton.
Industry:Biology
An object cannot be cooled to a temperature of absolute zero by a finite number of steps. How about that.
Industry:Biology
According to one source, a vertebrate whose body is covered with feathers. For more on this, see Pedanticism.
Industry:Biology
A diarrhea-producing intestinal bacterium that causes typhus and poisons raw milk, eggs, meat, and poultry.
Industry:Biology
The sticky tip of a pistil. Also: the pigment clusters that serve photosynthetic microbes as a light sensor.
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The theory that continents are mobile rather than fixed. Proposed by A. Snider in 1858. See Plate Tectonics.
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Coarse sedimentary rock composed of weather-rounded rock fragments cemented with silt and clay. See Breccia.
Industry:Biology
Small surface opening for gas exchange. Plants use stomata to take in carbon dioxide and emit oxygen and water.
Industry:Biology
The passage and recycling of carbon through the plantary biosphere, lithosphere, hydrosphere, and atmosphere.
Industry:Biology
