nonliving
Americanadjective
Vocabulary lists containing nonliving
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Without enough phosphorus and nitrogen, life cannot emerge from nonliving matter.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 6, 2026
The recycling of nutrients from detritus, or nonliving organic matter, is a core process in all ecosystems.
From Salon ● Oct. 2, 2023
In the Great Andamanese view of nature, the foremost distinction was between tajio, the living, and eleo, the nonliving.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 14, 2023
They held to a now discredited theory that would have required significant amounts of natural hydrogen to produce oil from nonliving processes rather than from ancient life.
From Science Magazine ● Feb. 15, 2023
Perhaps there is some special inorganic, nonliving catalyst in the soil that is able to fix atmospheric gases and convert them into organic molecules.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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