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ANAEROBIC
An environment in which oxygen is absent; organisms which are able to grow only in the absence of oxygen; a process that can only occur in absence of oxygen. Anaerobic processes include denitrification, sulfate reduction, methanogenesis and fermentation.
[See alsoaerobic, anoxia/anoxic, biogenic sediment, euxinia/euxinic, gleysols, lake stratification and zonation, nitrogen cycle, ...
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