circumneutral

English

Etymology

From circum- +‎ neutral.

Adjective

circumneutral (not comparable)

1. (chemistry) Approximately neutral.
   • 2015 July 9, Zackary J. Jay, William P. Inskeep, “The distribution, diversity, and importance of 16S rRNA gene introns in the order Thermoproteales”, in Biology Direct‎^[1], volume 10, →DOI:

     The most diverse set of introns were observed in a high-temperature, circumneutral (pH 6) sulfur sediment environment, which also contained the greatest diversity of different Thermoproteales phylotypes.