Sentences with phrase «oxidise organic»

These reactions oxidise organic compounds and reduce the iron in the lake.

It reacts violently with organic materials, destroying itself and oxidising the organic matter.

Not exact matches

If the rocks were below the surface, the heat of the planet may also have destroyed anything organic, and if they were on the surface, cosmic rays or oxidising chemicals like hydrogen peroxide could have severed the molecular ties.

The scientists found that almost 70 % of the organic carbon initially present in the weathered bedrock had been oxidised by soil microbes, to put, for every square kilometre they measured, somewhere between six and 18 tonnes of carbon back into the atmosphere.

Looking at the carbon fixation - organic material decomposition as a linked process, one sees that some of the carbon fixed by photosynthesis and incorporated into plant tissue is perhaps delayed from returning to the atmosphere until it is oxidised by decomposition or fire.

Low - oxygen bottom waters mean that the microbial population of the deep ocean is limited in its ability to oxidise photsynthetically produced organic matter back to CO2; thus the sediments accumulate a higher proportion of organic matter.