organic matrix

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organic
adjective
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/ɔːˈɡæn.ɪk/us
/ɔːrˈɡæn.ɪk/
not using artificial chemicals in the growing of plants and animals for food and ...
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matrix
noun
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/ˈmeɪ.trɪks/us
/ˈmeɪ.trɪks/
formal
the set of conditions that provides a system in which something grows ...
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(Definition oforganicandmatrixfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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These films can be viewed as systems immobilized in the rock and embedded in anorganicmatrixresulting from the excretion of exopolysaccharides by resident microorganisms.
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The described method can be applied to composites containing inorganic fibers in anorganicmatrix.
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These layers are separated by sheets oforganicmatrixcomposed of elastic biopolymers (such as chitin, lustrin and silk-like proteins).
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The osteoid seam is a narrow region of newly formedorganicmatrix, not yet mineralized, located on the surface of a bone.
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The vast majority of theorganicmatrixis collagen, which provides tensile strength.
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The first stage, called the secretory stage, involves proteins and anorganicmatrixforming a partially mineralized enamel.
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Odontoblasts increase in size, eliminating the availability of any extracellular resources to contribute to anorganicmatrixfor mineralization.
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The gastropod shell has several layers, and is typically made of calcium carbonate precipitated out into anorganicmatrixknown as conchiolin.
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The shell has several layers, and is typically made of calcium carbonate precipitated out into anorganicmatrix.
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The zone of destruction has a more mixed bacterial population where proteolytic enzymes have destroyed theorganicmatrix.
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Cluster compounds often consist of at least one functional group that allows an interaction with anorganicmatrix, for example by copolymerization.
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Theorganicmatrixcontains collagen fibers with large diameters (0.1-0.2 m in diameter).
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Formation may be mediated by theorganicmatrix, controlling the onset, duration and form of crystal growth.
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Minor, but important, amounts of small proteins, including osteocalcin and osteopontin, are also secreted in theorganicmatrixof bone.
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Thisorganicmatrixalso holds and binds to the crystals of aragonite which give such shells their stiffness.
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Theorganicmatrixforms the scaffold that directs crystallization, and the deposition and rate of crystals is also controlled by hormones produced by the mollusc.
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Organicmatrixcomposites are used for the interstage vanes.
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Theorganicmatrixcontains the material needed for dentin formation.
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Proteins and anorganicmatrixform a partially mineralized enamel in the secretory stage; the maturation stage completes enamel mineralization.
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Before theorganicmatrixis mineralized, it is called osteoid.
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