Other autotrophs use inorganic compounds instead of sunlight to make food; process known as chemosynthesis.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference

Rather, the organisms of these ecosystems function through "chemosynthesis".    From Wordnik.com.  [Larval Subjects .] Reference

Instead of photosynthesis, there is chemosynthesis.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gulf oil spill imperils Justin Bieber] Reference

Soil chemosynthesis (nitrifying, hydrogen-oxidizing, iron (Fe2+) - oxidizing, and sulfur c (S) bacteria).    From Wordnik.com.  [Effects of changes in climate and UV radiation levels on function of arctic ecosystems in the short and long term] Reference

Is a most interesting statement! indicating exact/precise measurements of the solar wind as cold fusion chemosynthesis driver?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ozone on Mars: Two Windows Better Than One | Universe Today] Reference

These organisms derive their energy through chemosynthesis of volcanic sulfur compounds and warm water solution dripping down from above.    From Wordnik.com.  [Warning: political cooties] Reference

With the "billions and billions" of stars and their attendant planets, surely some form of photosynthesis and/or chemosynthesis would occur out there.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dan Dubno: The End is Near: What's Your Personal Apocalypse?] Reference

Lots of tube worms, clam beds sitting on barren rock but when we opened them their body had taken over by a bacteria that uses chemosynthesis, not photosynthesis.    From Wordnik.com.  [Boing Boing] Reference

However, the starting point for almost all substrates is the primary production of organic matter by plant photosynthesis or (occasionally) bacterial chemosynthesis.    From Wordnik.com.  [Effects of changes in climate and UV radiation levels on function of arctic ecosystems in the short and long term] Reference

Nobody wants to listen to deadly-dull lectures on “pre-biotic polymer chemosynthesis” or “the homology between type III secretory apparatus and the bacterial flagellum” yawn.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Faith That Dare Not Speak Its Name - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

An example that was given was a science teacher I'm not sure if this was in elementary or middle school who taught her students about the underwater vents on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, and the chemosynthesis that was occurring around them.    From Wordnik.com.  [truth slips from view in the sea of post modern knowledge] Reference

Some microbes survive through chemosynthesis, a sunless seafloor version of photosynthesis.    From Wordnik.com.  [Livescience.com] Reference

"Instead of photosynthesis, they're doing chemosynthesis, pulling carbon off of limestone," Spear said.    From Wordnik.com.  [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference

They are based not on the more common photosynthesis but on chemosynthesis, by converting heat, methane and sulfur into energy and food.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Brussels Journal - The Voice of Conservatism in Europe] Reference

Producers -- usually plants that are capable of photosynthesis but could be such other organisms such bacteria living around ocean vents that are capable of chemosynthesis.    From Wordnik.com.  [Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]] Reference

Scientists say that a symbiotic relationship with bacteria enables such communities to convert methane into living matter in the absence of sunlight through a form of chemosynthesis.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mongabay.com News] Reference

The most advanced alien life form so far encountered by humanity - a species using chemosynthesis, an entirely new metabolic process to create energy, cells and life - was found by Professor.    From Wordnik.com.  [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference

Normally, such fissures are teeming with life, supported by the hot chemicals that spew from the vents and provide food through microbial chemosynthesis, a deep-sea version of photosynthesis.    From Wordnik.com.  [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference

Seep life is driven not by photosynthesis (where plants use sunlight to power the food web) but chemosynthesis, whereby single-celled organisms use methane and hydrogen sulfide to fuel a gas-powered food web.    From Wordnik.com.  [Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming RSS Newsfeed] Reference

Apparently, they fed on a food source flowing from the geysers, similar to the chemosynthesis that supported life around Earth’s deep water thermal vents.    From Wordnik.com.  [365 tomorrows » 2009 » January : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day] Reference

Perhaps it's chemosynthesis instead.    From Wordnik.com.  [teaching to the test] Reference

Others do it by chemosynthesis - they use C0.    From Wordnik.com.  [Medlogs - Recent stories] Reference