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Definition of Thermophiles
1. thermophile [n] - See also: thermophile
Lexicographical Neighbors of Thermophiles
Literary usage of Thermophiles
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. International Medical and Surgical Surveyby American Institute of Medicine by American Institute of Medicine (1922)
"The writers believe that the division made by Bergey into true thermophiles and
facultative thermophiles seems to be the most tenable up to the present time ..."
2. Preventing the Forward Contamination of Mars by National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Preventing the Forward Contamination of Mars, National Research Council (U.S.). Space Studies Board, National Research Council (U.S.). Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences (2006)
"Extremophiles are classified according to the conditions in which they exist,
for example as thermophiles (hot), psychrophiles (cold), halophiles (salty), ..."
3. Agricultural Bacteriology by Joseph Eames Greaves (1922)
"Most of the thermophiles are spore-bearing bacilli of little or no practical
importance. 2. Psychrophilic bacteria are those which grow best at relatively ..."
4. Compost: On-Farm Systems edited by Mary V. Gold (1998)
"... thermophiles explains why rapid degradation of the high C:N residue occurred
without additional N or the need for the addition of a low C:N ratio ..."
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