chemosynthesis.

The production of organic compounds using energy from chemical reactions rather than light.

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Words that belong together

• chemosynthetic ecosystem
• microbial chemosynthesis

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Chemosynthesis supported life around the dark vent.

The colony’s microbes depended on chemosynthesis.

Usage notes

Primary category: sci-fi. Forms: Uncountable process noun. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.