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- adjective Describing any form of
life based on theorganic biopolymers present in all forms of life onEarth .
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Examples
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And what they're looking for with this is a much stronger carbon-based material, and maybe this is it, I'm hoping.
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We are saying a very specific thing as well, essentially, that life is carbon-based nanotechnology designed by human-like intelligences, and if so, it would bear the hallmarks of human-like intelligence that we can look for.
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The planets, which orbit closer to their star than the planet Mercury does to the sun, are too hot for the biochemistry of conventional, carbon-based life and may lack water or any normal atmosphere.
Astronomers Spot Distant Earth-Size Planets Robert Lee Hotz 2011
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Dr. VOGT: Well, an important ingredient for life of the kind that we think we understand - carbon-based life, organic life - is that water exists on the surface of a stable place for billions of years in liquid form, 0 to 100 centigrade or 32 to 212 Fahrenheit.
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Dr. VOGT: Well, an important ingredient for life of the kind that we think we understand - carbon-based life, organic life - is that water exists on the surface of a stable place for billions of years in liquid form, 0 to 100 centigrade or 32 to 212 Fahrenheit.
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The Obama Administration in particular has been a champion of using tax incentives to push their agenda, insisting on tax breaks for "green" home improvements and punitive taxes on consumption of carbon-based energy sources.
Other Comments 2011
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She spoke to them directly, in a manner that inspired rather than admonished, about the role they can play in a future free from the tyranny of carbon-based fuels.
Steve Valk: It'll Take a Mom to Save Mother Earth Steve Valk 2011
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These samples are thin films of carbon-based nano-materials including carbon nano-tubes and graphite, said Hersam.
Endeavour's Last Flight a Big Deal to University Research Team 2011
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She spoke to them directly, in a manner that inspired rather than admonished, about the role they can play in a future free from the tyranny of carbon-based fuels.
Steve Valk: It'll Take a Mom to Save Mother Earth Steve Valk 2011
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Dr. VOGT: Well, an important ingredient for life of the kind that we think we understand - carbon-based life, organic life - is that water exists on the surface of a stable place for billions of years in liquid form, 0 to 100 centigrade or 32 to 212 Fahrenheit.
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