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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of a group of green pigments that absorb light energy used in photosynthesis and that are found in the chloroplasts of plants and other photosynthetic organisms such as cyanobacteria, especially.
- noun A waxy blue-black microcrystalline green-plant pigment, C55H72MgN4O5, with a characteristic blue-green alcohol solution.
- noun A similar green-plant pigment, C55H70MgN4O6, having a brilliant green alcohol solution.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) Literally, leaf green; a green granular matter formed in the cells of the leaves (and other parts exposed to light) of plants, to which they owe their green color, and through which all ordinary assimilation of plant food takes place. Similar chlorophyll granules have been found in the tissues of the lower animals.
- noun any of a group of green pigments found in photosynthetic organisms.
Chlorophyll a andchlorophyll b are found in higher plants and green algae;chlorophyll c is found in certain types of marine algae. Chemically, it has a porphyrin ring with a magnesium ion bound to the four central nitrogens, and has a phytyl side chain. It is essential for photosynthesis in most plants.Chlorophyll a has formula C55H72N4O5Mg.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any of a group of
green pigments that are found in thechloroplasts ofplants and in otherphotosynthetic organisms such ascyanobacteria .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun any of a group of green pigments found in photosynthetic organisms; there are four naturally occurring forms
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The Greek chloros, from which the word chlorophyll is said to be derived, is also a distant cousin.
Zolar’s Magick Of Color Simon 1994
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The Greek chloros, from which the word chlorophyll is said to be derived, is also a distant cousin.
Zolar’s Magick Of Color Simon 1994
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The Greek chloros, from which the word chlorophyll is said to be derived, is also a distant cousin.
Zolar’s Magick Of Color Simon 1994
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The Greek chloros, from which the word chlorophyll is said to be derived, is also a distant cousin.
Zolar’s Magick Of Color Simon 1994
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Looks like the "middle ground" is where the quantum mystics hang out and propose unnecessary quantum explanations for well-understood chemical mutation processes based on an extremely vague analogy between photon capture in chlorophyll and base pair mutations in DNA.
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Looks like the "middle ground" is where the quantum mystics hang out and propose unnecessary quantum explanations for well-understood chemical mutation processes based on an extremely vague analogy between photon capture in chlorophyll and base pair mutations in DNA.
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And the darker leaves on plants are good for you, she explains, because they contain "chlorophyll - the 'blood' of the plant - which will really oxygenate your blood."'
The Scottish nutritionist: attack of the killer yeast Ray Girvan 2004
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And the darker leaves on plants are good for you, she explains, because they contain "chlorophyll - the 'blood' of the plant - which will really oxygenate your blood."'
Archive 2004-08-01 Ray Girvan 2004
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Another biologically important example where femtochemistry has explained efficient energy conversion is in chlorophyll molecules, which capture light in photosynthesis.
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In all types of photosynthesis, the light energy absorbed by chlorophyll is transferred to membrane-bound protein-pigment complexes, known as reaction centers.
bilby commented on the word chlorophyll
Pretty green.
September 9, 2008