A carbon pool is a reservoir with the capacity to store and release carbon, such as soil, terrestrial vegetation, the ocean, and the atmosphere.
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Earths
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For a compound to be organic, it must have both carbon and
hydrogen. Carbon in its elemental form is therefore inorganic. A
carbon pool or stock or reservoir is simply a storage mechanism by
which the Earth stores carbon.
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The carbon is released back into the carbon pool in the
atmosphere