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  • Thumbnail for Carbon dioxide scrubber
    A carbon dioxide scrubber is a piece of equipment that absorbs carbon dioxide (CO2). It is used to treat exhaust gases from industrial plants or from...
    15 KB (1,746 words) - 00:45, 6 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Carbon capture and storage
    Carbon capture and storage (CCS) is a process by which carbon dioxide (CO2) from industrial installations is separated before it is released into the...
    108 KB (11,535 words) - 05:23, 11 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Carbon offsets and credits
    between entities. One carbon credit represents a reduction, avoidance or removal of one metric tonne of carbon dioxide or its carbon dioxide-equivalent (CO2e)...
    95 KB (9,062 words) - 11:57, 13 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Hypercapnia
    retention, is a condition of abnormally elevated carbon dioxide (CO2) levels in the blood. Carbon dioxide is a gaseous product of the body's metabolism and...
    28 KB (2,894 words) - 00:02, 17 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Net-zero emissions
    all greenhouse gases, and in others it refers only to emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2). To reach net zero targets requires actions to reduce emissions...
    57 KB (7,131 words) - 19:12, 12 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Carbon monoxide
    (including carbon monoxide) near the star. In the atmosphere of Venus carbon monoxide occurs as a result of the photodissociation of carbon dioxide by electromagnetic...
    73 KB (7,627 words) - 20:10, 27 October 2024
  • the air in each breath is available for the exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide. Mammals breathe in and out of their lungs, wasting that part of the...
    16 KB (2,227 words) - 12:58, 2 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Carbon footprint
    carbon dioxide. And it looks at emissions from economic activities, events, organizations and services. In some definitions, only the carbon dioxide emissions...
    71 KB (8,096 words) - 10:35, 13 November 2024
  • breathing eliminates more carbon dioxide than the body can produce. This leads to hypocapnia, a reduced concentration of carbon dioxide dissolved in the blood...
    4 KB (306 words) - 20:46, 2 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Buoyancy compensator (diving)
    of a buoyancy compensator skin fitting Internal fitting passing through the hole in a buoyancy compensator bladder Buoyancy compensator internal fitting...
    84 KB (11,923 words) - 09:10, 8 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Carbon monoxide poisoning
    COHb or HbCO) preventing the blood from carrying oxygen and expelling carbon dioxide as carbaminohemoglobin. Additionally, many other hemoproteins such as...
    103 KB (10,852 words) - 06:56, 25 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Carbon tax
    change, and that carbon dioxide is the most important of the anthropogenic greenhouse gases. Worldwide, 27 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide are produced by...
    77 KB (8,144 words) - 18:28, 13 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Diving rebreather
    Diving rebreather is an underwater breathing apparatus that absorbs the carbon dioxide of a diver's exhaled breath to permit the rebreathing (recycling) of...
    160 KB (20,142 words) - 04:38, 22 October 2024
  • facilitate gas exchange with the internal environment, mostly to flush out carbon dioxide and bring in oxygen. All aerobic creatures need oxygen for cellular...
    43 KB (4,926 words) - 19:00, 13 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Silicon carbide
    oxides forming silica and carbon dioxide. This can be used to make the glaze foam and crater due to the evolved carbon dioxide gas, or to reduce the colorant...
    69 KB (7,496 words) - 07:23, 28 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Arterial blood gas test
    analysis (ABGA) measures the amounts of arterial gases, such as oxygen and carbon dioxide. An ABG test requires that a small volume of blood be drawn from the...
    23 KB (2,333 words) - 14:15, 15 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Rebreather
    A rebreather is a breathing apparatus that absorbs the carbon dioxide of a user's exhaled breath to permit the rebreathing (recycling) of the substantially...
    85 KB (8,718 words) - 11:27, 15 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for History of climate change science
    water vapour than for dry air, and the effect is even greater with carbon dioxide. John Tyndall was the first to measure the infrared absorption and emission...
    150 KB (19,199 words) - 06:12, 17 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Urgenda Foundation v State of the Netherlands
    Urgenda Foundation v State of the Netherlands (category Carbon emissions in the European Union)
    carbon dioxide emissions. The case was brought against the Dutch government in 2013, arguing the government, by not meeting a minimum carbon dioxide emission-reduction...
    21 KB (2,276 words) - 01:19, 14 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Low-carbon diet
    anthropogenic GHG emissions expressed as carbon dioxide equivalents. Of this amount, 34 percent is carbon dioxide emission from deforestation, principally...
    33 KB (3,827 words) - 01:01, 12 November 2024
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