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Bathybius

Legal definition for Indian law research

Definition

A name given by Prof Huxley to a gelatinous substance found in mud dredged from the Atlantic and preserved in alcohol He supposed that it was free living protoplasm covering a large part of the ocean bed It is now known that the substance is of chemical not of organic origin

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