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material acquisition

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An acquisition in which possession of a material entity is gained.

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material acquisition

alternative term

material procurement

editor note

This excludes processes that create or change materials, such as material transformations., The assumption is that the object already exists in its current state, e.g, an available mouse strain purchased from the Jackson Lab, this is the differentia from specimen creation

editor preferred term

material acquisition

example of usage

Acquiring 50 C57BL/6 mice bred in the animal facility of the institute as a service to investigators. Purchasing 1 mg of peptides synthesized by Mimotopes at 80% purity. Getting a gift of purified CD4+ specific antibodies presented by Stephen Schoenberger at LIAI.

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term editor

Bjoern Peters, Alan Ruttenberg, Helen Parkinson

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