Sentences with phrase «mainly organic carbon»

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Atmospheric carbon dioxide derives from multiple natural sources including volcanic outgassing, the combustion of organic matter, and the respiration processes of living aerobic organisms; man - made sources of carbon dioxide come mainly from the burning of various fossil fuels for power generation and transport use.

A higher organic carbon load might lead to the development of ecosystems where microorganisms mainly feed on dissolved organic carbon, thus opening a way for the pollutants to enter the food web and cause more problems in higher level organisms, like fish,» says Matyas Ripszam.

Xiao used battery powered aerosol monitors to measure indoor concentrations of fine particulate matter, or particles 2.5 micrometers in diameter or smaller, which consists mainly of black carbon and organic carbon.

Both are pollutants, but the first is dominated by sulphate emissions from coal burning power plants, the second from ozone precursors such as NOx, volatile organic compounds, and carbon monoxide mainly emitted from vehicles.

There are three types of materials that I mainly focus on: carbon allotropes, transition metal dichalcogenides and organic surface modifiers.

Radiocarbon dating (also referred to as carbon dating or carbon - 14 dating) is a method for determining the age of an object containing organic material by Dating as an institution is a relatively recent phenomenon which has mainly emerged in the last few centuries.

We have to cut into the 35 % and growing overload GHGs, mainly carbon dioxide, In that comment I have outlined several actions that can be taken with many benefits in cutting into the natural biorecycling of GHGs from organic wastes.

Meanwhile no one wants to realize that the organic waste and sewage messes being totally mishandled at great cost are being allowed to biodegrade in dumps, composting and sewage treatment to reemit GHGs, mainly carbon dioxide, needlessly.

There is one aspect of climate change that is not fully established: the role of aerosol pollution (aka global dimming) from mainly from sulfates and soot (black carbon and organic carbon).

And biomass burning — which occurs mainly as a result of tropical forest fires, deforestation, savannah and shrub fires — emits large amounts of organic carbon particles that block solar radiation.

However, streams carry carbon — mainly as dissolved organic carbon and carbon dioxide — away from those peatlands, eventually releasing the greenhouse gas back into the atmosphere.