adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an organic compound (= containing carbon )
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the organic compounds of which living things are made
an organic farm (= a farm where artificial chemicals are not used )
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Organic farms can be as productive as industrial farming.
an organic substance (= from a living thing )
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Despite being an organic substance, ivory is remarkably durable.
organic chemicals (= containing natural substances including carbon )
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Oil and coal are known as organic chemicals.
organic chemistry
organic produce (= produced without artificial chemicals )
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There is increased demand for organic produce.
organic waste (= waste from plants, fruits, and vegetables )
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Organic waste can be composted to make garden fertilizer.
organic (= grown without using chemicals )
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Most supermarkets sell organic fruit and vegetables.
organic/intensive farming
organic/plant material
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Animals depend on plant material for food.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
more
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Postmodernism points to a more organic , less differentiated enclave of organization than those dominated by the bureaucratic designs of modernity.
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A more organic metaphor is needed to describe the process of transition.
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Unlike the two previous species, this one prefers more organic content in its substratum.
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Science is far more organic than this.
■ NOUN
acid
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They showed that three of the five patients had excessive faecal excretion of carbohydrate and organic acids .
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Accordingly, organic acids are thought to accumulate.
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Saturated hydrocarbons can burn to aldehydes, alcohols to organic acids , and aromatics to unsaturated compounds which are pungent and irritating.
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Those used range from mild organic acids such as citric acid to phosphoric acid highly reactive sulphuric and hydrochloric acids.
being
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On the origin and transitions of organic beings with peculiar habits and structure.
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On these principles, I believe, the nature of the affinities of all organic beings may be explained.
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A struggle for existence inevitably follows from the high rate at which all organic beings tend to increase.
brain
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This index distinguishes five different levels of organic brain syndrome ranging from severe to subclinical.
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Patients who have organic brain disease are more likely to have an abnormality than those who do not.
carbon
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Total organic carbon is made up of non-hazardous materials.
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Oil, gas, and coal, composed of organic carbon compounds, are found as economic deposits in sedimentary rocks.
chemical
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However, there is little sign that it will ever produce compounds on the scale required by the heavy organic chemicals industry.
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One of the original bugs had undergone a mutation that caused it to excrete acetate, an organic chemical .
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In fact there was remarkably little evidence for standard organic chemicals that do not need to be formed biologically.
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It shows the close association that can exist between organic chemical synthesis and clay surfaces.
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It used to be the basis of the whole heavy organic chemical industry, and might be again.
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The theory is that industrial alcohol can desensitize some one to all synthetic organic chemicals , because it is derived from oil.
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However, human urine would contain hormones that are similar to organic chemicals that sharks use to locate their prey.
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Our organic chemicals businesses have survived the recession very well by designing new products and identifying new applications.
chemist
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Biotransformations for organic chemists will take place on 7-9 July 1992 at University of Exeter.
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One of the greatest organic chemists in the world and as good as any of the present Harvard bunch.
chemistry
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The company is involved in a wide range of organic chemistry .
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Louise and Amelia were also both enrolled in an inorganic chemistry course at Columbia and an organic chemistry course at Barnard.
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In organic chemistry it is thus more convenient to describe carbon in terms of its valency than its oxidation numbers.
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Red has four finals in four days: physics, chemistry , organic chemistry and calculus.
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It is awarded biennially for excellence in physical organic chemistry embracing the relationship between structure and reactivity.
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The book thus seeks to explain the application of these colorants in terms of their organic chemistry .
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It is made annually for eminence in organic chemistry and includes a monetary prize of £2000.
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Cimetidine was the first H2 blocker to reach the clinic, which was a triumph for synthetic organic chemistry .
composition
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There is the same organic composition of capital in both departments of production.
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There are no changes in technology or productivity of labour, hence no change in the organic composition of capital.
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She argued that Marx's schema of reproduction became unbalanced if one assumed such an increase in the organic composition of capital.
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Marx, in his schemas, assumed an organic composition of capital of or, and also that Dept.
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Now, leaving aside the case where there were different organic compositions of capital, we can see what happens.
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Moreover, with an unchanged organic composition of capital we find:.
compound
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Activated carbon has the ability to remove a wide variety of organic compounds from water and wastewater, even in trace quantities.
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Paints traditionally were made with volatile organic compounds , which can pollute indoor and outdoor air.
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Amines are a series of organic compounds related to ammonia.
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Paints today are getting safer as companies remove volatile organic compounds , but you still need to be careful.
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This fact can be used to determine the identity of unknown organic compounds by the method of mixed melting points.
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Having observed organic compounds in meteorites, these researchers believe the seeds of life may have been carried to earth preformed.
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To summarize, the organic compounds found in cells are built up and broken down by enzymes.
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Chemists know that oxygen-free climates like this tend to foster the spontaneous synthesis of organic compounds .
farm
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The prime culprit is organic farm waste, such as cattle slurry and silage, and even milk.
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For a crash course on the subject, consider subscribing to an organic farm with a delivery service in your area.
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Next week a new residential block opens at its organic farm , Kilcranny House, just outside Coleraine.
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They say I must come and see them on their new organic farm - more land, less house, says Johnson.
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A well-run organic farm could hold many times that number.
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Mr Wilson says organic farms reverse many modern agricultural trends.
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By exterminating farm animals, the option of small organic farms is eroded.
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Loans to organic farms and businesses tripled and the number of borrowers rose by more than 50 per cent each year.
farmer
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And they also believe that would-be organic farmers should be encouraged with financial incentives.
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There are around 1,100 organic farmers .
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Harriet Ryley has been talking to an organic farmer who believes in putting the environment before profits.
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He's an organic farmer so he doesn't use any of the chemicals used on conventional farms.
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The chances of this working are close to zero, leaving organic farmers without their biological weapon of last resort.
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More than 30 organic farmers have offered to have their plots surveyed.
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There are over 1,000 organic farmers operating in Britain at the moment.
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It's up to the organic farmers to sort out the inconsistent supply complaint.
farming
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The foundation will also research and develop organic farming techniques.
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Some farmers are likely to achieve this by converting to organic farming .
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In creating one she has inadvertently made a move towards alternative methods of selling that could have great significance for organic farming .
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It is now open to the public as a prize example of how well organic farming can function.
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These groups believe that both the Set Aside and Beef Extensification schemes could go one step further and encourage organic farming .
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But as organic farming burgeons, so greater controls on the use of the word are to be introduced.
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The most popular method or organic farming is using a multi-culture system in which crops are grown and livestock reared.
food
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The organic food most commonly found in a delicatessen is cheese.
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The children ate organic foods from health food stores and from the garden at their home.
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April 1992: the first wholesale organic food market was opened in London.
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The secret of the remarkable production by plants of both oxygen and organic food substances is of course photosynthesis.
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Two recent surveys clearly show that many shoppers are willing to pay more for organic food .
growth
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It is claimed to be equally efficient for removing stains and organic growth from bricks, concrete and stone.
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This was partly through acquisitions, but organic growth was a more-than-healthy 73 per cent.
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Maud attributes some 15% of this increase to organic growth , with acquisitions providing the balance.
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Expansion by organic growth is also important, developing existing business areas, evaluating market knowledge and demonstrating confidence in the products.
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Healthy organic growth is proportionate, with each area and function developing in relation to the other.
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This is a strategy of organic growth .
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Evolution by natural selection is' the direct negation of organic growth .
life
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Could shock-waves have brought about organic life ?
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Undistracted by the lusts and passions of organic life , he had pursued that goal with absolute single-mindedness of purpose.
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The place is full of the aroma of Spot-Knee, the ram lamb who recently copped it after a blissful organic life .
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Competition and struggle exist, as parts of the mechanism by which organic life evolves to new and superior forms.
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As each culture neared the end of its organic life cycle the creative stage was finished and the atrophying civilization stage began.
material
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They also, astonishingly, contain abundant organic material .
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Metal refracts it while organic material absorbs it. 3.
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Uneaten food and other dead organic materials left in the tank are the worst offenders in pollution of the water.
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An independent chronology for these reconstructions is essential and this is provided by radiocarbon-dating of organic material preserved in the sediments.
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Muck is formed by the decaying of saw grass and other organic material over thousands of years.
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They are separated by a thin layer of a very complex organic material .
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The corals feed passively on bits of organic material suspended in the water.
matter
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Some organic matter is needed in order to produce nice specimens.
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Many layers of decaying organic matter built up in Pennsylvania during the Cretaceous, and now it is all coal.
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Properly understood and managed, strong clays will structure themselves, and can nourish plants with relatively little organic matter present.
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The organic matter is extremely old and quite dissimilar to biological material.
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It will grow quite well in aquarium gravel with very little organic matter .
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Researchers have seen their kind before in sewers and other places where organic matter is highly concentrated.
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Cultivation: A tank bottom consisting of good organic matter such as leaf-mould with sand is most suitable.
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Urban refuse is 75 percent organic matter .
milk
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In 1996, organic milk sales totaled $ 30 million.
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We compromise on salted Straus Family butter, a spunky, high fat, local butter made from organic milk .
molecule
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Chemists now know how to make most organic molecules in the laboratory, but the name has stuck.
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One idea that has been suggested is that the precursors of life - complex organic molecules - arrived here from outer space.
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Tannins, another kind of organic molecule , are used in the oil industry to make muds easier to drill.
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When this happened, say Hoyle and Wickramasinghe, the organic molecules within the comets were spewed out over the land.
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We know, too, that meteorites often do contain complex organic molecules .
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Geologists believe that oil and coal are composed of organic molecules because they themselves are derived from living things.
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None of these organic molecules shows evidence of originating from living matter.
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But although organic molecules are the essential components of modern living things, they can not in isolation be considered living.
produce
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If you can only afford to buy a certain amount of organic produce , potatoes would be a good choice.
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Everything depends upon the on-going premium for organic produce .
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The trouble is, organic produce is not cheap.
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Retailers are constantly unable to meet demand for organic produce and import around 60 percent from abroad.
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He also recognised a growing market for organic produce .
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The report anticipates sales of organic produce to rise from last year's £900 million to £2.7 billion by 1995.
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Comfortable restaurant with an imaginative menu using organic produce .
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We use much of our own organic produce and can cater for most diets.
product
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In spite of this, organic products still account for less than 1 % of produce sold.
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As a producer and processor of organic products , Dirk is a successful and independent supplier of the current market demand.
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Society is the natural, organic product of slow historical growth. 3.
relationship
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The best model for organic relationships was a branching tree, not a linear scale.
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It was an organic relationship which even anti-democrats like Aristotle endorsed.
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Second, do the new products have some organic relationship with their current stock-in-trade?
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This was traditionally expressed in terms of some organic relationship between an individual and his community.
remains
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Copper can favor the preservation of organic remains , perhaps by preventing the activity of destructive micro-organisms.
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Climate plays an important role too in the preservation of organic remains .
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But there are no organic remains of any kind.
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All over the world, rocks of this antiquity were carefully searched for organic remains .
solvent
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The nitric acid solution is then mixed with an organic solvent and the uranium and plutonium are separated from the waste products.
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Similarly, the reference to reactions in organic solvents merited further discussion.
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The Gyrovap can cope with 240 samples at a time and is appropriate for water as well as organic solvents .
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Second, there is growing environmental pressure, particularly on organic solvents .
structure
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Burns and Stalker found that organic structures were better able to respond to change than mechanistic ones.
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In Piaget's system the behavioural components are functional forms of organic structure .
substance
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Thus, falling into the technocrats' natural sin, it mistook administrative device for organic substance .
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They are producers, the only organisms able to develop organic substances from inorganic mineral elements and their compounds.
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QACs are badly affected by hard water and are progressively inactivated by dirt and other organic substances .
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All varieties of this species withstand hard water as well as water with surplus or organic substances .
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Most interesting organic substances are non-conducting, and biologists like to put their samples on insulating glass slides.
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First its value was enhanced because, despite being an organic substance , ivory is remarkably durable.
synthesis
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There was one fascinating lecture on chirality and organic synthesis including the design of Salbutamol, a drug used to treat asthma.
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Solution or solid phase synthesis is welcomed, as are combinatorial approaches to organic synthesis.
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Chromatography is particularly useful in organic synthesis in separating and recovering the components of a mixture.
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This is used to separate the products of an organic synthesis from water.
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In other respects the book has changed little and there is no attempt to deal with organic synthesis in its own right.
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It also needs long periods of ecological stability during which evolutionary epochs can bring about the necessary organic synthesis .
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Was there a natural organic synthesis ?
unity
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The principle of organic unities is wielded as yet another weapon against hedonism.
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There is his basic scheme of an organic unity in life, a principle that is extended to human thought.
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Moore grants that all very great goods are organic unities which have pleasure as a part.
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It is an organic unity with a multiplicity of parts.
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Until such questions are satisfactorily answered, evaluation of the principle of organic unities remains problematic.
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Post-structuralist critics will deny that literature possesses the organic unity to which the New Critics attached so much weight.
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From this it would follow that the principle of organic unities has no clear meaning.
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Where it is different, Moore calls the whole in question an organic unity .
waste
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A plastic dustbin with breeding colony on to which organic waste is showered.
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That treatment system, which only removes organic waste , costs $ 41, 000 annually to operate and maintain.
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Producing methane gas from landfill sites, sewage works and organic wastes is another extremely practical use of resources.
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The lagoons would be lined and filled with organic waste , after recyclable materials had been separated.
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Food, wood, the organic wastes of animals and plants are all forms of biomass.
whole
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This magnificent vision of church and society united as an organic whole was, however, doomed to disintegrate.
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Members of these groups, which are linked together in an organic whole , work cooperatively to maintain the social order.
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According to ancient ideas, the balance of yin and yang forces comprise an organic whole .
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The Universe is one organic whole , no matter how diverse and widely differing its manifold aspects may seem to be.
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The reasons Moore gives for thinking that there can not be organic wholes are not very compelling.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
waste/solid/organic/vegetable etc matter
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After all, it eventually produces waste matter .
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Because if they didn't, then all solid matter would simply turn to vapour.
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It tells you just about how much organic matter is present.
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It was the only solid matter they would meet this side of Jupiterstill two hundred million miles away.
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Some organic matter is needed in order to produce nice specimens.
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The quantity needed may, however, vary according to the quantity of organic matter in the raw water.
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Urban refuse is 75 percent organic matter .
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You can improve your soil by adding organic matter .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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organic dyes
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Organic fruit is generally more expensive.
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organic material such as leaves, bark, and grass
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Clark's proposals see the tax and welfare systems as a single organic whole.
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For this recipe, use a free-range, organic chicken.
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Most supermarkets now sell organic produce.
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Nowadays I only buy meat that is organic .
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Several farmers in the county have moved to organic farming recently.
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There is an organic link in each song between the words and music
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There was another big increase last year in the demand for organic vegetables.
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They are demanding more government support for organic farmers.
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Two studies suggest a possible organic explanation for the disease.
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Worried by repeated food scares, more and more people are buying organic products.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A more organic metaphor is needed to describe the process of transition.
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Imagine an entire city of Gaudi buildings, a human-made forest of planted homes and organic churches.
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It is an organic view of the organization.
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Paints today are getting safer as companies remove volatile organic compounds, but you still need to be careful.
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Saturated hydrocarbons can burn to aldehydes, alcohols to organic acids, and aromatics to unsaturated compounds which are pungent and irritating.
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This magnificent vision of church and society united as an organic whole was, however, doomed to disintegrate.