Sentences with phrase «decaying organic matter as»

You are the same decaying organic matter as everyone else, and we are all a part of the same compost pile.»

You're the same decaying organic matter as everything else.»

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Known more accurately as soil organic carbon, it is part of soil organic matter, which is made up of decaying plant and animal matter, and essential elements for good plant growth such as calcium, phosphorous, and nitrogen.

The settings of these two blazes couldn't have been more different, but scientists suspect the two had something important in common: plenty of decaying organic matter known as peat.

Composting decays piles of food or manure as microbes decompose organic matter using oxygen to survive, grow and reproduce.

The approach, called tunable infrared laser direct absorption spectroscopy, detects the ratio of methane isotopes, which can provide a «fingerprint» to differentiate between two common origins: microbial, in which microorganisms, typically living in wetlands or the guts of animals, produce methane as a metabolic byproduct; or thermogenic, in which organic matter, buried deep within the Earth, decays to methane at high temperatures.

He says this is the same process that goes on today as modern bacteria recycle decaying organic matter into minerals and gases.

Known as the «sulfur pearl of Namibia,» this anaerobic species digests organic matter under low - oxygen (or no - oxygen) conditions that are caused by high rates of phytoplankton growth in the Benguela upwelling zone, and the subsequent decay of large masses of dead phytoplankton that have fallen to the seafloor.

Both vulgar compositions are constructed from materials and vernacular slang that are commonplace, their «human» component made from organic matter that needs to be replaced as inevitable decay sets in.

As this organic matter thaws it decays, releasing carbon dioxide and methane, another powerful greenhouse gas, and insulating the planet still further.

Terrestrial ecosystems, such as the Arctic tundra and Amazon rainforest, contain a huge amount of carbon in organic matter such as decaying plant material.

Tropical reservoirs flood huge amounts of organic matter, which creates methane as it decays.