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BIOMASS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The total mass of living matter in a given unit area
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("biomass" is a kind of...):
mass (the property of a body that causes it to have weight in a gravitational field)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Plant materials and animal waste used as fuel
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("biomass" is a kind of...):
fuel (a substance that can be consumed to produce energy)
Context examples:
It allows “virtually weekly” harvests, with a productivity rate up to 30 times as high as the biomass made from land vegetables.
(Petrobras considers producing biodiesel from microalgae, Agência Brasil)
Every year, scientists have harvested the plants in the chambers and measured their total biomass, stems, roots and other key traits.
(High carbon dioxide can create 'shrinking stems' in marshes, National Science Foundation)
A team of Brazilian researchers studied particles released during the burning of biomass using material they collected in the Amazon forest, to assess how inhaling them can impact on human health.
(Lung damage from agricultural fires probed, SciDev.Net)
According to EMBRAPA experts, using these low-cost effluents as a medium to grow microalgae could add value to the sugarcane and palm oil production chain by enabling the production of larger amounts of biomass and oil for energy and bioproducts.
(Brazilian researchers identify microalgae that can provide biofuels, Agência Brasil)
For years, scientists had known that carbon dioxide was increasing the total biomass of marsh plants, so it seemed natural to think individual plants were getting bigger, too.
(High carbon dioxide can create 'shrinking stems' in marshes, National Science Foundation)
Individual marsh plants become smaller and denser with increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide and nitrogen, increasing overall marsh biomass and elevation, says Betsy von Holle, a program director in NSF's Division of Environmental Biology.
(High carbon dioxide can create 'shrinking stems' in marshes, National Science Foundation)
