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According to notes on the web, Flemish scientist Jan Baptista van Helmont was the first to describe Carbon Dioxide around 1630. At this point it was called a "Wood Gas". It wasn't until the mid 1700's when it was further characterized, and in 1823 it was liquefied, and in 1834 made into dry ice.
In the late 1800's, the idea of Infrared radiation absorption was discovered, and by the mid 1900's the idea of greenhouse gasses was beginning to be formulated.
"The Population Bomb", a book written by Paul R. Ehrlich in 1968 discussed CO2 as a greenhouse gas, but at that time there was no consensus whether pollution would cause cooling of the earth, or greenhouse gasses would cause warming of the earth.
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CO2's full name?
Carbon Dioxide Carbon dioxide
What gas is given off during respiration?
Carbon dioxide
What are two ways that deforestation adds carbon dioxide to the atmosphere?
Rotting trees add carbon dioxide (and sometimes methane) to the atmosphere.Burning trees releases carbon dioxide to the atmosphere.
What gas do people breathe out?
Humans breathe in oxygen and exhale carbon dioxide. Plants take in this carbon dioxide along with sunlight and water, and convert it into a form of energy. They release oxygen.Carbon dioxide CO2
How does the lumber industry affects the environment?
If you chop trees down, there are less trees to absorbe the carbon dioxide. Also, carbon dioxide can be released from the that are chopped down.
Who discoverd carbon?
Ancients and they discovered it in prehistoric times
What gas is produced by respiration?
Carbon dioxide.
What colour would Carbon dioxide change limewater to?
Carbon dioxide.
What gas is exhaled from the lungs?
carbon dioxide
What do you get adding one carbon and two oxygen?
Carbon dioxide.
Is carbon dioxide an element or carbon?
Carbon is an element, but not carbon dioxide. Carbon dioxide is a compound of carbon and oxygen.
What gas is given off by cellular respiration?
Carbon Dioxide
When carbon reacts with oxygen to form carbon dioxide carbon dioxide is?
When carbon reacts with oxygen to form carbon dioxide, carbon dioxide is the product of the reaction.
What is the opposite of carbon dioxide?
Negative carbon dioxide emission is the opposite of carbon dioxide. The formula for carbon dioxide is CO2.
In a solution of carbon dioxide in water a soft drink the carbon dioxide is the solute?
The carbon dioxide is a solute in a solution of carbon dioxide in water in a soft drink.
Does carbon contain carbon dioxide?
No. Carbon dioxide contains carbon.
When a carbon reacts with oxygen to form carbon dioxide carbon dioxide is the?
Carbon dioxide is the product; oxygen and carbon are the reactants.
