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This is equally true in the #biotic environment (the “#biosphere”), consisting of microorganisms, plants, animals, and the human body; in #abiotic (lifeless) environments, such as the #geosphere, the #lithosphere, the #hydrosphere, and the #atmosphere; and in the entire #ecosphere, comprising ecosystems composed of biotic and abiotic elements in complex interrelationships. Such ecosystems, large and small, for all their components, also interact in intricate mutual relationships.
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Moreover, this chemical diversity (“#chemodiversity”) indicates the richness of the spatial and temporal variations and changes—the amounts, types, and states of all the particles and substances in Nature—from elements and atoms, through molecules and compounds, to composite mixtures, solutions, and materials.
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