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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121. Equipping a plant to cope with carbon dioxide is likely to double its cost.
122. Life isn't just about taking in oxygen and giving out carbon dioxide. Malala Yousafzai 
123. The burning of coal, oil and gas to provide energy results in the release of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.
124. The safety mattress also produced only half as much carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide.
125. Potassium hydroxide is injected into the tube to remove carbon dioxide.
126. Because the diesel engine uses so much less fuel it releases substantially less carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.
127. This is because of the higher levels of carbon dioxide emissions from coal-fired stations compared with natural gas.
128. These can be compared to the original volume to calculate the percentage of oxygen and carbon dioxide in the air.
129. To flood the air with carbon dioxide, the biospherians hauled back the tons of dried grass clippings they had removed earlier.
130. The water vapor can then be cycled by reacting it with carbon monoxide to make carbon dioxide and hydrogen.
131. When they are burned, their carbon combines with oxygen from the atmosphere to form carbon dioxide gas.
132. The main global-warming gas, after all, is carbon dioxide, given off mainly by burning fossil fuels.
133. They produce bubbles of carbon dioxide gas, which push the cake or bread batter up.
134. Methane is a potent greenhouse gas, each molecule trapping 25 times as much heat radiation as one molecule of carbon dioxide.
135. Carbon dioxide is taken out of the water by plants to photosynthesise and produce energy.
136. Sulphur dioxide and carbon dioxide are two common chemical compounds.
137. Traditionally, this cooling requirement has been accomplished using slices of solid carbon dioxide, better known as dry ice.
138. Carbon dioxide emissions will increase by between 9 and 23 percent, and fuel consumption will rise by 3-9 percent.
139. These changes, appropriately pursued, could also bring large long-term reductions in emissions of carbon dioxide and other environmental impacts.
140. And it probably always will, since no conceivable technology can prevent petroleum combustion from producing carbon dioxide.
141. The overwhelming weight of scientific opinion is that we need to make cuts of 60 % or more in carbon dioxide emissions.
142. A forest on this scale would absorb large amounts of carbon dioxide.
143. The Building Research Establishment give the following figures for the emission of carbon dioxide per kilowatt hour for different energy sources.
144. For example, at elevated temperatures(sentencedict .com), sodium bicarbonate decomposes and releases carbon dioxide and leaves sodium carbonate as mentioned earlier.
145. Changes in the size of boreal forests and carbon dioxide concentrations have moved in step for most of this century.
146. The most obvious source, and one that is ubiquitous on the Martian surface, is carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
147. They then combine the hydrogen with carbon dioxide to form sugars and release the oxygen into the atmosphere.
148. Carbon dioxide and moisture threaten to efface the Lascaux cave drawings.
149. And burning coal, of course, produces, carbon dioxide as well as sulphur dioxide.
150. To keep a balance of atmosphere, excess carbon dioxide needed to be removed by chemical filters.
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