{"id":946,"date":"2026-07-23T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/2026\/07\/23\/science-word-of-the-day-abiotic\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T08:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T08:00:00","slug":"science-word-of-the-day-abiotic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/2026\/07\/23\/science-word-of-the-day-abiotic\/","title":{"rendered":"Science word of the day: Abiotic"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<p><strong>Science word of the day: <\/strong>Abiotic<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pronunciation: <\/strong><em>Ay-bye-AH&#8217;-tik<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>What it means: <\/strong>Abiotic means &#8220;without living organisms.&#8221; Scientists typically use the term when referring to nonliving aspects of an ecosystem that affect organisms&#8217; growth or reproduction. Some abiotic factors might be light, water, fertilizer, nutrients or chemical elements, such as oxygen or sulfur. Others include the tides or rain. Sometimes, &#8220;abiotic&#8221; is used to describe the origin of a particular chemical. Abiotic methane, for example, comes from chemical reactions between rocks and water in Earth&#8217;s crust, unlike biotic methane, which comes from decaying organic matter as well as microbes living in your gut. <\/p>\n<p><strong>How to use it in a sentence: <\/strong>A new &#8220;gold rush&#8221; of exploration is on for <em>abiotic <\/em>hydrogen, which forms when rocks react with water deep underground and could be a renewable, carbon-free fuel of the future. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Can you crack our science word of the day puzzle, <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/chain-science-word-of-the-day-puzzle\"><u><strong>Chain Word<\/strong><\/u><\/a><strong>?<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style=\"min-height: 250px\">\n<div class=\"kwizly-quiz kwizly-W2rM4W\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/article>\n<p class=\"bkbc-source\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Latest from Live Science<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Science word of the day: Abiotic Pronunciation: Ay-bye-AH&#8217;-tik What it means: Abiotic means &#8220;without living organisms.&#8221; Scientists typically use the term when referring to nonliving [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":947,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}