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AUTOGENY, AUTOGENOUS (Gr. abroyevi7s)

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 45 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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AUTOGENY, AUTOGENOUS (Gr. abroyevi7s) , spontaneous See also:generation, self-produced. See also:Haeckel distinguished autogeny and plasmogeny, applying the former See also:term when the formative fluid in which the first living See also:matter was supposed to arise was in-organic and the latter when it was organic, i.e. contained the requisite fundamental substances dissolved in the See also:form of complicated and fluid combinations of See also:carbon. In " autogenous soldering " two pieces of See also:metal are See also:united by the melting of the opposing surfaces, without the use of a See also:separate fusible alloy or See also:solder as a cementing material.

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