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Anaerobic Biotransformations of Organic Matter

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Bacteria in Nature

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Transformations involve both matter and energy, energy being the capacity to do work, i.e., to exert force to cause motion. The kind and magnitude of the energy transformation depend on the materials moved. The six different categories of energy—nuclear, chemical, mechanical, radiant, electrical, and heat—are interconvertible, as shown in Figure 1, but whereas the first five forms of energy (“high” forms) can be converted completely to heat (random motion), the latter can be only partially converted to the others, the more completely the higher the temperature. Work can be defined also as the extent to which energy is converted to a high form. To the extent that high forms of energy are converted to heat, there is a degradation of energy; also, heat energy degrades as the difference diminishes.

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