biogeochemistryn.
/ˌbʌɪə(ʊ)ˌdʒiːə(ʊ)ˈkɛmᵻstri/, U.S. /ˌbaɪoʊˌdʒioʊˈkɛməstri/ 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.
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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.
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