Sentences with phrase «inorganic carbonates»

If Pillinger's device detects organic compounds that have more C - 12 than do inorganic carbonates in the same sample, that will be strong evidence that life was once present.

If it is Martian in origin, the carbon may be from organic hydrocarbons or inorganic carbonates.

They found that up to 89 percent of the uranium from their 650 - foot - deep samples wasn't crystalline uraninite at all, but rather, a non-crystalline uranium that was bound to organic matter or inorganic carbonate.

The resulting decline in the buffering capacity of the inorganic carbonate system (increasing Revelle factor) sets up a theoretically predicted feedback loop whereby the invasion of anthropogenic CO2 reduces the ocean's ability to uptake additional CO2.

You do know that plant life absorbs photons and CO2, which is buffered by inorganic carbonate, and convert it to organic carbon.

Not exact matches

Phosphoric acid is a strong, inorganic acid often used in colas and other dark - colored, carbonated sodas.

Or it could have been inorganic compounds like carbonates, much like the baking soda in your kitchen cabinet.

In nacre, layer lattices of inorganic calcium carbonate alternate with layers of organic material.

Additionally, calcifying organisms incorporate the inorganic carbon in their calcium carbonate shells directly.

Faster sea floor spreading, presumably associated with more volcanic activity at subduction zones, and / or other increases in volcanic activity or geologic outgassing, or faster oxidation of exposed fossil organic C (as in shales)-- greater geologic CO2 emissions (I think another way of looking at the inorganic part is that any given region of sea floor has less time to accumulate carbonate minerals from chemical weathering, so that C reservoir could shrink while others, including the atmosphere, can grow).

Here, we report surface water dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC) and sedimentary organic carbon concentrations and their isotopic compositions in the rapidly urbanized Jiaozhou Bay in northeast China as well as carbonate parameters in effluents of three large WWTPs around the bay.

The water you drink should be as low in minerals as possible (soft water) because minerals in water are inorganic and are not beneficial but harmful, especially calcium carbonate which contributes to kidney stones, heart attacks, arthritis or constipation.

-- Avoid drinking hard water (high in inorganic calcium carbonate).

-- Consuming hard water (high in inorganic calcium carbonate) and using inorganic calcium carbonate supplements;

Henry's law doesn't really work well for complex carbonate equilibria and big volumes of liquid water, but even as an approximation, let's assume that if we have 38,000 Gt of dissolved inorganic carbon, DIC, (CO2 + HCO3 + CO3) in the oceans, and the preindustrial CO2 in the atmosphere is about 2,200 gigatons (300 ppm), that's a ratio of about 0.06 (atm / ocean).

They are typically relatively small fluxes of CO2, as are the sequestration of C from those reservoirs to gelogic reservoirs either as organic C or inorganic C (carbonate minerals)-- an exception being the result of recent human activity.

The ocean has dissolved inorganic carbon in three forms — most as bicarbonate, a little bit as carbonate and a very tiny part as carbon dioxide, or CO2.

All of the CO2 - derived chemical species in the water together, i.e. carbon dioxide, carbonic acid, bicarbonate and carbonate ions, are referred to as dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC).

Intuitively, it might be expected that the precipitation of calcium carbonate would decrease solution pCO2 and dissolution of calcium carbonate would increase pCO2 because total dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC) concentrations and total alkalinity (TA) change in this manner.

In seawater, CO2 interacts with water molecules to form carbonic acid, which reacts very quickly with the large reservoir of dissolved inorganic carbon — bicarbonate and carbonate ions — in the ocean.

Accordingly, there are three main vectors of anthropogenic impacts on marine pH: (1) emissions of CO2, and other gases affecting marine pH, to the atmosphere; (2) perturbation of watershed processes affecting the inputs of nutrients, organic and inorganic carbon, acids and carbonate alkalinity to the ocean; and (3) impacts on ecosystem structure (Table 1).

TA, total alkalinity; DIC, dissolved inorganic carbon; pCO2, carbon dioxide concentration; HCO3 −, bicarbonate concentration; CO32 −, carbonate concentration; POC, particulate organic carbon content per cell; PP, primary production per cell; PIC, particulate inorganic carbon content per cell; CR, calcification rate per cell; Chl a, chlorophyll a content per cell.