The absence of life; the state or condition of being without living organisms or life processes.
From Greek a- (not) + bios (life) + -osis (condition or process). This term describes the fundamental absence of life in an environment or system.
Scientists use abiosis to describe the state of the early Earth before life emerged—a planet where abiotic chemistry happened for hundreds of millions of years with no living things to interfere with it.
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