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n. The growing of plants without either soil or hydroponics but in a mist-laden atmosphere.
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Aeroponics is the process of growing plants in an air or mist environment without the use of soil or an aggregate medium (known as geoponics). The word "aeroponic" is derived from the Greek meanings of aero- (air) and ponos (labour). Aeroponic culture differs from both conventional hydroponics, aquaponics, and in-vitro ( plant tissue culture) growing. Unlike hydroponics, which uses a liquid nutrient solution as a growing medium and essential minerals to sustain plant growth; or aquaponics which uses water and fish waste, aeroponics is conducted without a growing medium. Because water is used in aeroponics to transmit nutrients, it is sometimes considered a type of hydroponics.
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There were also environmental enclosures, immense ones, containing not just aeroponics and hydroponics, but parks, groves of trees, and what appeared to be open bodies of water.
Hydroponics and Aeroponics are here and here, on the second floor, along with the maintenance section here, and the packaging facilities over here.
Tarrant entered the aeroponics room, the gleaming white PVC pipe and enameled steel in shining contrast to the dim red of the fishery.
Some of it could be produced in the aeroponics bay, but the majority had to be foraged from the surfaces of alien planets.
The journey took several minutes even at a sprint, through sunken tunnels and window-lined connecting bridges, up and down grilled ramps, through ponderous internal airlocks and sweltering aeroponics labs, taking this detour or that to avoid a blown bubble or failed airlock.
He noted the health of the plants in the aeroponics lab, sketching their leaves and marking the ebb and flow of various diseases.
I replaced them with outdoor lamps, some of the vari-temp, night-into-day lights for hydro- and aeroponics, the millipedes curled up as if to shield themselves, regardless of the temperature.
More recently, an aeroponics facility had been used for show, for the humans.
They contain such items as spare parts, chemical supplies, emergency seeds for restarting aeroponics, sheet and bar metal.
The aeroponics shed had been stripped of all but its bulkiest fixtures.