Assertion: digestion | /r/HasProperty | mechanical
Facets:
value: in other words
type: OTHER
value: primarily
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: Other than the chemical digestion of carbohydrates in the mouth, all digestion to this point has been mechanical.
text: Digestion can be either chemical or physical - physical digestion occurs when you chew food in your mouth (mastication) or chemical when it is broken down in the stomach (via HCl), just to give a few examples.
text: Digestion can be either chemical or mechanical.
text: This led to the important discovery that the stomach acid, and not solely the mashing, pounding and squeezing of the stomach, digests the food into nutrients the stomach can use; in other words, digestion was primarily a chemical process and not a mechanical one.
text: Digestion can be either chemical or mechanical.