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Are huge amounts of carbon dioxide locked up in shells of tiny marine organisms?
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Where does the carbon in CO2 go Doesn't gravity and rain clean the CO2 from the atmosphere?
No. Carbon dioxide is thoroughly mixed into the atmosphere and cannot separate from the air simply though gravity. Some carbon dioxide does go into water to become locked away in carbonate minerals, but the primary way of removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere is through photosynthesis, a process by which plants and algae convert water and carbon dioxide into sugar and oxygen. Currently we are producing more carbon dioxide than the plants can absorb, resulting in an increase in the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
What is locked up' carbon?
Carbon dioxide that has been taken out of the atmosphere and trapped inside oceans, sedimentary rocks, volcanoes etc. from billions and billions of years ago :)
Why is it dangerous to run a engine in an enclosed place?
The engine burn oxygen with petrol or diesel which is a combination of carbon and hydrogen. The exhaust gases should be carbon dioxide and water (H2O) in vapour form. There will also be some incomplete combustion which means in stead of just carbon dioxide and water there will be some carbon monoxide and sometimes even carbon (soot). Carbon monoxide is very dangerous us, just small amounts will kill you. While carbon dioxide on the other hand technically can't kill you, in high enough concentrations you can suffer carbon dioxide poisoning. Just like in a locked and air tight sealed room you'll die of carbon dioxide poisoning before you die if oxygen deprevation. So it's down to inhaling the dangerous exhaust fumes. That'll cause you to pass out and then eventually kill you.
Where is the most CO2 that has outgassed from Earth's volcanoes in the atmosphere escaped to space locked up in rocks?
Yes, volcanoes will emit about 0.15 - 0.25 gigatons of carbon annually in the present day.
How Biofuel helps to reduce global warming?
No
What is locked up carbon dioxide?
Carbon dioxide that has been taken out of the atmosphere and trapped inside oceans, sedimentary rocks, volcanoes etc. from billions and billions of years ago.
Why is there is so little carbon dioxide and more oxygen in Earth's atmosphere?
Algae and later plants carried out photosynthesis, which uses sunlight to convert water and carbon dioxide into sugar and oxygen. This process removed carbon dioxide from the air and added oxygen. Additional carbon dioxide was removed and locked away in carbonate rocks such as limestone.
Carbon in the atmosphere is most often found as which of the following compounds?
List the compounds so I can answer your question. I would imagine Carbon Dioxide and Carbon Monoxide would be the first 2.
Where does the carbon in CO2 go Doesn't gravity and rain clean the CO2 from the atmosphere?
No. Carbon dioxide is thoroughly mixed into the atmosphere and cannot separate from the air simply though gravity. Some carbon dioxide does go into water to become locked away in carbonate minerals, but the primary way of removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere is through photosynthesis, a process by which plants and algae convert water and carbon dioxide into sugar and oxygen. Currently we are producing more carbon dioxide than the plants can absorb, resulting in an increase in the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
What is locked up' carbon?
Carbon dioxide that has been taken out of the atmosphere and trapped inside oceans, sedimentary rocks, volcanoes etc. from billions and billions of years ago :)
Why is it dangerous to run a engine in an enclosed place?
The engine burn oxygen with petrol or diesel which is a combination of carbon and hydrogen. The exhaust gases should be carbon dioxide and water (H2O) in vapour form. There will also be some incomplete combustion which means in stead of just carbon dioxide and water there will be some carbon monoxide and sometimes even carbon (soot). Carbon monoxide is very dangerous us, just small amounts will kill you. While carbon dioxide on the other hand technically can't kill you, in high enough concentrations you can suffer carbon dioxide poisoning. Just like in a locked and air tight sealed room you'll die of carbon dioxide poisoning before you die if oxygen deprevation. So it's down to inhaling the dangerous exhaust fumes. That'll cause you to pass out and then eventually kill you.
Where is the most CO2 that has outgassed from Earth's volcanoes in the atmosphere escaped to space locked up in rocks?
Yes, volcanoes will emit about 0.15 - 0.25 gigatons of carbon annually in the present day.
How Biofuel helps to reduce global warming?
No
When carbon is released into the atmosphere what compound is it locked in?
Most commonly as Carbon dioxide, but it is also released as elemental carbon, usually as a fine powder, which is often carried many miles by our atmosphere, before being deposited all over the earth.
What are the negatives about getting electricity through coal?
When you bur the coal, you are releasing all the locked up carbon dioxide from when the coal was formed, millions of years ago, when the earths atmosphere was mainly7 co2
What would happen if we didn't have micro-organisms?
Um... a lot of things. One horrible example would be that things would rot much slower or not at all. This would cause all of the worlds carbon dioxide to become quickly locked up in dead plant matter. However, new species would have to quickly evolve to take the saprotrophic niches. Thankfully this can't happen.
What would happen if we didn't have micro organisms?
Um... a lot of things. One horrible example would be that things would rot much slower or not at all. This would cause all of the worlds carbon dioxide to become quickly locked up in dead plant matter. However, new species would have to quickly evolve to take the saprotrophic niches. Thankfully this can't happen.
