Specific Biospheres
When the word is followed by a number, it is usually referring to a specific system or number. Thus:
- Biosphere 1, the planet Earth
- Biosphere 2, a laboratory in Arizona which contains 3.15 acres (13,000 m²) of closed ecosystem.
- BIOS-3, a closed ecosystem at the Institute of Biophysics in Krasnoyarsk, Siberia, in what was then the Soviet Union.
- Biosphere J (CEEF, Closed Ecology Experiment Facilities), an experiment in Japan.
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Famous quotes containing the word specific:
“The more specific idea of evolution now reached is—a change from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity to a definite, coherent heterogeneity, accompanying the dissipation of motion and integration of matter.”
—Herbert Spencer (1820–1903)