单词 | biogeochemistry |
释义 | biogeochemistryn. The branch of science that deals with the joint effect of biological, chemical, and geological processes on the environment (both living and inanimate parts). Also: the properties of something as they relate to this. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > study > [noun] > biochemistry > branches of histochemistry1853 molecular biology1884 cytochemistry1900 enzymology1900 hormonology1918 biogeochemistry1935 palaeobiochemistry1954 immunocytochemistry1961 ultracytochemistry1965 1935 tr. A. E. Fersman Sci. Study Soviet Mineral Resources iv. 69 There has been recently organized in Moscow a large scientific research centre for the study of biogeochemistry. 1938 tr. V. I. Vernadsky Some Fund. Probl. Biogeochem. 5 Biogeochemistry, which is a part of geochemistry and has peculiar methods and peculiar problems of its own, may be finally reduced to a precise quantitative mathematical expression of the living nature in its indissoluble connection with the external medium, in which the living nature exists. 1973 Nature 1 June 308/2 The discussions liberally impinge on the cognate sciences of evolutionary palaeontography, biogeochemistry and statistics. 1989 Environmental Pollution 56 284 The biogeochemistry of aluminium has received much attention in studies of acidification, as it is mobilised at low pH and is toxic to several aquatic species. 2005 M. Bjornerud Reading Rocks i. 19 Even skeptics of the Gaia idea..acknowledge that it has inspired productive new lines of inquiry: biogeochemistry, geomicrobiology, and geophysiology. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < |
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