Xerophile, the Glossary

Table of Contents

1. 35 relations: Antibiotic, Bacteria, Cactus, Dehydration, Endospore, Extremophile, Food drying, Food preservation, Food spoilage, Freeze drying, Halophile, Hermetic seal, Humidity, Microbiological culture, Microorganism, Mold, Osmophile, Packaging, Partial pressure, Purified water, Salt, Solution (chemistry), Spore, Sterilization (microbiology), Sugar, Thermodynamic activity, Thermodynamic equilibrium, Thermodynamics, Vaccine, Vapor pressure, Vapor–liquid equilibrium, Water activity, Water vapor, Yeast, Zygosaccharomyces.

2. Xerophiles

Antibiotic

An antibiotic is a type of antimicrobial substance active against bacteria.

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Bacteria

Bacteria (bacterium) are ubiquitous, mostly free-living organisms often consisting of one biological cell. Xerophile and Bacteria are biology terminology.

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Cactus

A cactus (cacti, cactuses, or less commonly, cactus) is a member of the plant family Cactaceae, a family comprising about 127 genera with some 1,750 known species of the order Caryophyllales.

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Dehydration

In physiology, dehydration is a lack of total body water, with an accompanying disruption of metabolic processes.

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Endospore

An endospore is a dormant, tough, and non-reproductive structure produced by some bacteria in the phylum Bacillota.

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Extremophile

An extremophile is an organism that is able to live (or in some cases thrive) in extreme environments, i.e., environments with conditions approaching or stretching the limits of what known life can adapt to, such as extreme temperature, pressure, radiation, salinity, or pH level. Xerophile and extremophile are extremophiles.

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Food drying

Food drying is a method of food preservation in which food is dried (dehydrated or desiccated).

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Food preservation

Food preservation includes processes that make food more resistant to microorganism growth and slow the oxidation of fats.

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Food spoilage

Food spoilage is the process where a food product becomes unsuitable to ingest by the consumer.

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Freeze drying

Freeze drying, also known as lyophilization or cryodesiccation, is a low temperature dehydration process that involves freezing the product and lowering pressure, thereby removing the ice by sublimation.

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Halophile

A halophile (from the Greek word for 'salt-loving') is an extremophile that thrives in high salt concentrations.

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Hermetic seal

A hermetic seal is any type of sealing that makes a given object airtight (preventing the passage of air, oxygen, or other gases).

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Humidity

Humidity is the concentration of water vapor present in the air.

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Microbiological culture

A microbiological culture, or microbial culture, is a method of multiplying microbial organisms by letting them reproduce in predetermined culture medium under controlled laboratory conditions.

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Microorganism

A microorganism, or microbe, is an organism of microscopic size, which may exist in its single-celled form or as a colony of cells. The possible existence of unseen microbial life was suspected from ancient times, such as in Jain scriptures from sixth century BC India. The scientific study of microorganisms began with their observation under the microscope in the 1670s by Anton van Leeuwenhoek.

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Mold

A mold or mould is one of the structures that certain fungi can form.

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Osmophile

An osmophile is an extremophile microorganism adapted to environments generating high osmotic pressures, such as aqueous solutions with high salt or sugar concentrations (e.g., brines or sirups).

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Packaging

Packaging is the science, art and technology of enclosing or protecting products for distribution, storage, sale, and use.

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Partial pressure

In a mixture of gases, each constituent gas has a partial pressure which is the notional pressure of that constituent gas as if it alone occupied the entire volume of the original mixture at the same temperature.

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Purified water

Purified water is water that has been mechanically filtered or processed to remove impurities and make it suitable for use.

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Salt

In common usage, salt is a mineral composed primarily of sodium chloride (NaCl).

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Solution (chemistry)

In chemistry, a solution is a special type of homogeneous mixture composed of two or more substances.

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Spore

In biology, a spore is a unit of sexual (in fungi) or asexual reproduction that may be adapted for dispersal and for survival, often for extended periods of time, in unfavourable conditions.

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Sterilization (microbiology)

Sterilization (sterilisation) refers to any process that removes, kills, or deactivates all forms of life (particularly microorganisms such as fungi, bacteria, spores, and unicellular eukaryotic organisms) and other biological agents (such as prions or viruses) present in or on a specific surface, object, or fluid.

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Sugar

Sugar is the generic name for sweet-tasting, soluble carbohydrates, many of which are used in food.

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Thermodynamic activity

In chemical thermodynamics, activity (symbol) is a measure of the "effective concentration" of a species in a mixture, in the sense that the species' chemical potential depends on the activity of a real solution in the same way that it would depend on concentration for an ideal solution.

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Thermodynamic equilibrium

Thermodynamic equilibrium is an axiomatic concept of thermodynamics.

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Thermodynamics

Thermodynamics is a branch of physics that deals with heat, work, and temperature, and their relation to energy, entropy, and the physical properties of matter and radiation.

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Vaccine

A vaccine is a biological preparation that provides active acquired immunity to a particular infectious or malignant disease.

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Vapor pressure

Vapor pressure or equilibrium vapor pressure is the pressure exerted by a vapor in thermodynamic equilibrium with its condensed phases (solid or liquid) at a given temperature in a closed system.

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Vapor–liquid equilibrium

In thermodynamics and chemical engineering, the vapor–liquid equilibrium (VLE) describes the distribution of a chemical species between the vapor phase and a liquid phase.

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Water activity

Water activity (aw) is the partial vapor pressure of water in a solution divided by the standard state partial vapor pressure of water.

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Water vapor

Water vapor, water vapour or aqueous vapor is the gaseous phase of water.

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Yeast

Yeasts are eukaryotic, single-celled microorganisms classified as members of the fungus kingdom.

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Zygosaccharomyces

Zygosaccharomyces is a genus of yeasts in the family Saccharomycetaceae.

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See also

Xerophiles

• Aardvark
• Aspergillus conicus
• Debaryomyces hansenii
• Pseudobiotus
• Ramajendas
• Ramazzottius
• Tardigrade
• Tardigrade specific proteins
• Tardigrades
• White-throated woodrat
• White-toothed woodrat
• Xerocole
• Xerophile
• Xerophyte

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xerophile

Also known as Hyperxerophilic, Xerophiles, Xerophilic, Xerophilous, Xerotolerance, Xerotolerant.