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carbon dioxide English

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Meaning carbon dioxide meaning

What does carbon dioxide mean?

carbon dioxide

— noun a heavy odorless colorless gas formed during respiration and by the decomposition of organic substances; absorbed from the air by plants in photosynthesis

Synonyms carbon dioxide synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as carbon dioxide?

carbon dioxide English » English

carbonic acid gas

CO2

carbonic acid

poisonous gas

poison gas

co2

carbonoxide

carbonic gas

carbonic anhydride

Topics carbon dioxide topics

What do people use carbon dioxide to talk about?

Universe, creation World Solid, liquid, gas

Gas

• What types of gas are there?
  natural gas oxygen carbon dioxide ozone hydrogen nitrogen helium neon

Examples carbon dioxide examples

How do I use carbon dioxide in a sentence?

Simple sentences

That would lead to the production of more carbon dioxide, the main gas responsible for global warming.

Trees give off oxygen and absorb carbon dioxide.

It is said that global warming is directly related to carbon dioxide emissions.

Carbon dioxide is not a poison in itself.

Tropical rainforests produce oxygen and consume carbon dioxide.

Forests regulate the water cycle and take away harmful carbon dioxide.

This is a term used to describe the warming of the earth, due to growing amounts of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

Carbon dioxide sometimes harms people.

Carbon dioxide is a gas that is produced every time a fuel such as coal, oil, or natural gas is burned.

Movie subtitles

On Earth, much of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide is chemically bound to the rocks.

But when it got to about 400 degrees Celsius, this carbon dioxide started baking out of the rocks and into the atmosphere.

With an atmosphere of water vapour and carbon dioxide, this cycle kept going and going and the runaway greenhouse effect has left Venus dry, lifeless, and a scorching 480 degrees Celsius.

Within its centre, the oxygen is being consumed in every cellar and every ground-floor room, to be replaced by the gases of carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide and methane.

When the carbon-dioxide content of inhaled air is greater than 30 per cent, it will cause diminished respiration, fall of blood pressure, coma, loss of reflexes and anaesthesia.

Oh, it's just a simple exchange, Mr. Grant. Corpuscles releasing carbon dioxide in return for oxygen coming through on the other side.

News and current affairs

A well-designed fund would slow or stop deforestation, preserve biodiversity, and reduce emissions of carbon dioxide the burning of cleared forests.

But, beyond this well-trodden battlefield, something amazing has happened: Carbon-dioxide emissions in the United States have dropped to their lowest level in 20 years.

The name comes from the number of parts per million of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere that, according to Jim Hansen, perhaps the world's leading climate scientist, we should not exceed if we are to avoid potentially catastrophic climate change.