Synonym: CO2, carbonic acid gas. Similar words: carbon, carbon cycle, carbohydrate, taxidermy, harbour, bourbon, harbor, yearbook. Meaning: n. a heavy odorless colorless gas formed during respiration and by the decomposition of organic substances; absorbed from the air by plants in photosynthesis.
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91. That is a neat package for increasing the output of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.
92. This same basic cycle could also operate on the interconversion of carbon dioxide into carbon monoxide plus oxygen.
93. The government has committed itself to reducing carbon dioxide emissions to 1990 levels by the year 2000.
94. The country's 22.5 million cars emit 20 percent of total carbon dioxide emissions.
95. When carbon monoxide is the reducing agent, carbon dioxide is produced.
96. The maximum rate of carbon dioxide generation, in contrast, appears to occur at maturities of less than 0.4%.
97. Some species create carbon dioxide at a faster rate than others of equal size.
98. Carbon dioxide is a so-called greenhouse gas, which absorbs energy from the sun, making the air warmer.
99. So more and more coal, gas and oil are burned producing more carbon dioxide.
100. When calcium carbonate is heated it decomposes into calcium oxide and carbon dioxide.
101. To achieve a balance of oxygen and carbon dioxide, one human needed 8 square metres of exposed Chlorella.
102. The thin carbon dioxide atmosphere on Mars admits sunlight to the surface with very little attenuation.
103. In combination with oxygen it forms the gas carbon dioxide.
104. In particular, the air now contains only about 0.05 percent of carbon dioxide: a trace indeed.
105. The device contains a carbon dioxide cylinder which released gas into a coiled chamber.
106. Atmospheric carbon dioxide in the northern hemisphere is increasing measurably.
107. If not, shortages of the other nutrients, such as nitrogen, could halt the growth benefits of more carbon dioxide.
108. For plants to photosynthesise and produce sugars in their leaf cells, they need to absorb large amounts of carbon dioxide.
109. A variety of simple terrestrial life-forms can thrive in a medium of liquid water with carbon dioxide and ammonia available.
110. They were surprised to find that carbon dioxide concentrations were higher in water taken from inside the algal blooms than outside it.
111. They also remove the carbon and make it available to plants as carbon dioxide.
112. This would reduce the ability of the living world to take up carbon dioxide.
113. The physical symptoms occur as a result of too much oxygen and too little carbon dioxide.
114. Solid carbon dioxide has a similar structure with the C02 molecules occupying the lattice sites.
115. Other companies have studied ways to offset or reduce emissions of carbon dioxide.
116. It has been shown that an accumulation of carbon dioxide in the water reduces the amount of oxygen carried in the blood.
117. In contrast to most plants,(http://sentencedict.com/carbon dioxide.html) they breathe in oxygen and give out carbon dioxide.
118. Water is capable of dissolving carbon dioxide; the composition of the atmosphere would therefore change considerably.
119. But all fossil fuels, especially the cleanest anthracite, burn to produce abundant carbon dioxide.
120. Many regions have abandoned coal-burning electricity plants, which give off carbon dioxide, a potent greenhouse gas.
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