nonfossil

English

Etymology

non- +‎ fossil

Adjective

nonfossil (not comparable)

  1. Not a fossil, or not a fossil fuel
    • 2009 January 23, Sonke Szidat, “ATMOSPHERE: Sources of Asian Haze”, in Science‎, volume 323, number 5913, DOI:10.1126/science.1169407:
      Radiocarbon analysis allows fossil and nonfossil sources of black carbon and organic carbon to be identified.
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