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biofuel
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Click to rate this initiative! [Total: 0 Average: 0]You must sign in to voteBiomass-based fuels (e.g., from grain, corn, sugar cane), which can be used for engines and are sometimes mixed with fossil fuels in Austria. Click to rate this initiative! [Total: 0 Average: 0]You must sign in to vote

biogenic
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Click to rate this initiative! [Total: 0 Average: 0]You must sign in to voteThe adjective “biogenic” means “created by (the activity of) living beings, formed from dead beings”. Click to rate this initiative! [Total: 0 Average: 0]You must sign in to vote

bioturbation
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Click to rate this initiative! [Total: 0 Average: 0]You must sign in to voteThe term describes the rummaging and mixing (turbation) of soil or sediments by living beings. Click to rate this initiative! [Total: 0 Average: 0]You must sign in to vote

bog/ moor/ peatlands
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Click to rate this initiative! [Total: 0 Average: 0]You must sign in to voteBogs are wet habitats overgrown with low vegetation. They consist of 95 percent water and are therefore large water reservoirs. Bogs are habitats in which more organic matter forms than is decomposed. In addition, peatlands are important carbon reservoirs. Almost half of

botany
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Click to rate this initiative! [Total: 0 Average: 0]You must sign in to voteBotany is a branch of biology and deals with the science of plants. Click to rate this initiative! [Total: 0 Average: 0]You must sign in to vote

buffer capacity
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Click to rate this initiative! [Total: 0 Average: 0]You must sign in to voteThe buffering capacity describes the amount of acid that can be absorbed by the soil’s buffering function without causing a significant change in pH. Click to rate this initiative! [Total: 0 Average: 0]You must sign in to vote

buffer function
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Click to rate this initiative! [Total: 0 Average: 0]You must sign in to voteThe soil’s buffering function describes its ability to neutralise acids in order to keep the pH constant. Click to rate this initiative! [Total: 0 Average: 0]You must sign in to vote

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