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If you are interested in this, you might want to start looking here [0]. The general term for lifeforms in such extreme environments is "extremophiles". The di
by _Microft 6y ago
If you are interested in this, you might want to start looking here [0]. The general term for lifeforms in such extreme environments is "extremophiles". The different classes of extremes have own names though, for example "Acidophiles" for life in acidic environments. There is a list of them in the article.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extremophile https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extremophile
- thaumasiotes 6y ago> The different classes of extremes have own names though, for example "Acidophiles" for life in acidic environments. This bothered me, since "acidophile" is transparently a hybrid compound with one Latin and one Greek root. So I looked up what the Greek root for acid would be. Turns out it's oxy-, and oxygen was erroneously named for its essential (and completely fictional) role in the formation of acids. Acidophiles should properly be termed oxyphiles... except that everyone would get the wrong idea. This fails to explain how acidophilus bacteria got their name, though.