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Anaerobic   Listen
adjective
Anaerobic  adj.  
1.
(Biol.) Not requiring air or oxygen for life; applied especially to those microbes to which free oxygen is unnecessary; anaerobiotic; opposed to aerobic.
2.
(Biol.) Relating to, or like, anaerobies; anaerobiotic.





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... air many bacteria promote hydrolysis, under favourable conditions as to temperature and access of oxygen, the process going beyond the simple splitting up into fatty acid and glycerol, carbon dioxide and water being formed. Under anaerobic conditions, however, only a slight primary hydrolysis was found to take place, though according to Rideal (Journ. Soc. Chem. Ind., 1903, 69) there is a distinct increase in the amount of free fatty acids in a sewage after passage through ...
— The Handbook of Soap Manufacture • W. H. Simmons


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