What does organic matter mean?
Definitions for organic matter
or·gan·ic mat·ter
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organic matternoun
The residues of dead plants and animals in various stages of decomposition
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of organic matter in Chaldean Numerology is: 6
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of organic matter in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9
Examples of organic matter in a Sentence
The rocks that we have been investigating on the delta have the highest concentration of organic matter that we have yet found on the mission.
I took a helicopter to reach this very remote part of the world -- home to bears and mosquitoes -- where I could find Dickinsonia fossils with organic matter still intact, i had to hang over the edge of a cliff on ropes and dig out huge blocks of sandstone, throw them down, wash the sandstone and repeat this process until I found the fossils I was after.
You are not special. You are not a beautiful or unique snowflake. You are the same decaying organic matter as everything else.
While the detection of this class of organics alone does not mean that life was definitively there, this set of observations does start to look like some things that we've seen here on Earth, to put it simply, if this is a treasure hunt for potential signs of life on another planet, organic matter is a clue. And we're getting stronger and stronger clues as we're moving through our delta campaign.
The features that jump out so clearly represent the influence of ocean eddies and physical stirring on the concentration of phytoplankton pigments and, possibly, colored dissolved organic matter.
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