circumneutral

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From circum- +‎ neutral.

Adjective[edit]

circumneutral (not comparable)

  1. (chemistry) Approximately neutral.
    • 2015 July 9, Zackary J. Jay, William P. Inskeep, “The distribution, diversity, and importance of 16S rRNA gene introns in the order Thermoproteales”, in Biology Direct‎[1], volume 10, →DOI:
      The most diverse set of introns were observed in a high-temperature, circumneutral (pH 6) sulfur sediment environment, which also contained the greatest diversity of different Thermoproteales phylotypes.
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