Anaerobic
adjective
Something that doesn't require oxygen to live or grow.
Yeast is an anaerobic organism that can survive without oxygen.
Often appears as...
- anaerobic bacteria
- anaerobic digestion
Usage tips
Technical
adjective
Physical exercise that doesn't require large amounts of oxygen.
Weightlifting is an anaerobic exercise that builds muscles.
Often appears as...
- anaerobic energy
- anaerobic capacity
adjective
An environment or process that happens without air or oxygen.
The bottom of a lake can become an anaerobic environment where oxygen-depleted conditions exist.
Often appears as...
- anaerobic conditions
- anaerobic decomposition
adjective
Something that doesn't require oxygen to live or grow.
Yeast is an anaerobic organism that can survive without oxygen.
Often appears as...
- anaerobic bacteria
- anaerobic digestion
Usage tips
Technical
adjective
Physical exercise that doesn't require large amounts of oxygen.
Weightlifting is an anaerobic exercise that builds muscles.
Often appears as...
- anaerobic energy
- anaerobic capacity
adjective
An environment or process that happens without air or oxygen.
The bottom of a lake can become an anaerobic environment where oxygen-depleted conditions exist.
Often appears as...
- anaerobic conditions
- anaerobic decomposition
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3No Oxygen Needed
Refers to organisms or processes functioning well in environments lacking oxygen.
In the sealed container, the anaerobic bacteria thrived without air.
Pro Tip 2/3Technical Term
Used in scientific contexts to describe living things that can survive in oxygen-free environments.
The scientist studied anaerobic microbes from the ocean floor.
Pro Tip 3/3Common Habitats
Anaerobic organisms are often found in swamps, deep water, or decaying matter.
The swamp's anaerobic conditions are perfect for certain fungi.
Pro Tip 1/3No Oxygen Needed
Refers to organisms or processes functioning well in environments lacking oxygen.
In the sealed container, the anaerobic bacteria thrived without air.
Pro Tip 2/3Technical Term
Used in scientific contexts to describe living things that can survive in oxygen-free environments.
The scientist studied anaerobic microbes from the ocean floor.
Pro Tip 3/3Common Habitats
Anaerobic organisms are often found in swamps, deep water, or decaying matter.
The swamp's anaerobic conditions are perfect for certain fungi.
Pro Tip 1/3No Oxygen Needed
Refers to organisms or processes functioning well in environments lacking oxygen.
In the sealed container, the anaerobic bacteria thrived without air.
Pro Tip 2/3Technical Term
Used in scientific contexts to describe living things that can survive in oxygen-free environments.
The scientist studied anaerobic microbes from the ocean floor.
Pro Tip 3/3Common Habitats
Anaerobic organisms are often found in swamps, deep water, or decaying matter.
The swamp's anaerobic conditions are perfect for certain fungi.
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Underwater Lost City in...
how does that happen, where it doesn't decay? Well, what's happened with this is that as the sea level has risen above it. It's covered it with this silt, and it's taken away all the oxygen. And it just preserved it in a sort of anaerobic, oxygen-free environment. And it would have stayed there for many more thousand years. But recently, the old landscape's eroding away,
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Michael Pawlyn: Using...
Then we would have an anaerobic digester, which could deal with all the biodegradable waste from the local area, turn that into heat for the greenhouse and electricity to feed back into the grid. We'd have a water treatment system treating wastewater, turning that into fresh water and generating energy from the solids
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Why is this 2,500 year...
anaerobic bacteria do gradually weaken organic materials. When researchers lifted a plank from the ancient Greek wreck for dating, it broke under its own weight. While the ships are exceptionally well-preserved, they're also fragile. This makes it impossible to bring them to the surface intact.
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Leyla Acaroglu: Paper...
but this is a net situation. Most natural things don't actually end up in nature. Most of the things, the waste that we produce, end up in landfill. Landfill is a different environment. In landfill, those same carbon molecules degrade in a different way, because a landfill is anaerobic.
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Tristram Stuart: The...
of food waste which we could and should be feeding them. If we did that, and fed it to pigs, we would save that amount of carbon. If we feed our food waste which is the current government favorite way of getting rid of food waste, to anaerobic digestion, which turns food waste
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What Happens To The...
protect the stream from you know people urinating industry because we've had problems with that in the past we're putting in some quite major kind of infrastructure upgrades around the site one of which is a anaerobic digester plant which is linked to the farms or
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The beneficial bacteria...
among other products. Yeast break down carbohydrates, like sugar, to get energy and the molecules they need to function. They have two different ways to do the oxygen-dependent, or aerobic, pathway, and the oxygen-independent, anaerobic pathway,
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Matthew Mazzotta:...
we replaced a garbage can in a park with an anaerobic digester to transform dog waste into usable methane gas. Burning this methane lights the park and reduces greenhouse gases. By slightly changing an everyday experience in public space,
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How a single-celled...
carbon dioxide, and methane. Almost all oxygen was locked up in molecules like water, not floating around in the air. The oceans were populated by anaerobic microbes. Those are simple, unicellular life forms that thrive without oxygen
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Sewer Power PIPE National...
capacity digesters inside the digesters bacteria living in this anaerobic environment are agitated by pumps and mixers as they slowly break down the sludge intense heat inside the digesters
Video examples
Underwater Lost City in...
how does that happen, where it doesn't decay? Well, what's happened with this is that as the sea level has risen above it. It's covered it with this silt, and it's taken away all the oxygen. And it just preserved it in a sort of anaerobic, oxygen-free environment. And it would have stayed there for many more thousand years. But recently, the old landscape's eroding away,
Video examples
Michael Pawlyn: Using...
Then we would have an anaerobic digester, which could deal with all the biodegradable waste from the local area, turn that into heat for the greenhouse and electricity to feed back into the grid. We'd have a water treatment system treating wastewater, turning that into fresh water and generating energy from the solids
Video examples
Why is this 2,500 year...
anaerobic bacteria do gradually weaken organic materials. When researchers lifted a plank from the ancient Greek wreck for dating, it broke under its own weight. While the ships are exceptionally well-preserved, they're also fragile. This makes it impossible to bring them to the surface intact.
Video examples
Leyla Acaroglu: Paper...
but this is a net situation. Most natural things don't actually end up in nature. Most of the things, the waste that we produce, end up in landfill. Landfill is a different environment. In landfill, those same carbon molecules degrade in a different way, because a landfill is anaerobic.
Video examples
Tristram Stuart: The...
of food waste which we could and should be feeding them. If we did that, and fed it to pigs, we would save that amount of carbon. If we feed our food waste which is the current government favorite way of getting rid of food waste, to anaerobic digestion, which turns food waste
Video examples
What Happens To The...
protect the stream from you know people urinating industry because we've had problems with that in the past we're putting in some quite major kind of infrastructure upgrades around the site one of which is a anaerobic digester plant which is linked to the farms or
Video examples
The beneficial bacteria...
among other products. Yeast break down carbohydrates, like sugar, to get energy and the molecules they need to function. They have two different ways to do the oxygen-dependent, or aerobic, pathway, and the oxygen-independent, anaerobic pathway,
Video examples
Matthew Mazzotta:...
we replaced a garbage can in a park with an anaerobic digester to transform dog waste into usable methane gas. Burning this methane lights the park and reduces greenhouse gases. By slightly changing an everyday experience in public space,
Video examples
How a single-celled...
carbon dioxide, and methane. Almost all oxygen was locked up in molecules like water, not floating around in the air. The oceans were populated by anaerobic microbes. Those are simple, unicellular life forms that thrive without oxygen
Video examples
Sewer Power PIPE National...
capacity digesters inside the digesters bacteria living in this anaerobic environment are agitated by pumps and mixers as they slowly break down the sludge intense heat inside the digesters
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Quote examples
Roger Bannister
British Athlete
It's a question of spreading the available energy, aerobic and anaerobic, evenly over four minutes. If you run one part too fast, you pay a price. If you run another part more slowly your overall time is slower.
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Arthur Lydiard
New Zealander Athlete
No one will burn out doing aerobic running. It is too much anaerobic running, which the American scholastic athletic system tends to put young athletes through, that burns them out.
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Jacob Rothschild
British Businessman
If we can go some way to creating a vibrant anaerobic digestion industry here in the U.K., we will be reaching our goals both in terms of economics and the environment.
Quote examples
Roger Bannister
British Athlete
It's a question of spreading the available energy, aerobic and anaerobic, evenly over four minutes. If you run one part too fast, you pay a price. If you run another part more slowly your overall time is slower.
Quote examples
Arthur Lydiard
New Zealander Athlete
No one will burn out doing aerobic running. It is too much anaerobic running, which the American scholastic athletic system tends to put young athletes through, that burns them out.
Quote examples
Jacob Rothschild
British Businessman
If we can go some way to creating a vibrant anaerobic digestion industry here in the U.K., we will be reaching our goals both in terms of economics and the environment.
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