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Dioxide in sentence

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It means reduce your carbon dioxide emissions with the full range of choices that you make, and then purchase or acquire offsets for the remainder that you have not completely reduced.
We've been able to engineer viruses to pick up carbon nanotubes and then grow titanium dioxide around them, and use it as a way of getting electrons through the device.
Simone Bianco: As many of you know, since 1950, the average surface temperature of the earth has increased by one degree Centigrade due to all the carbon dioxide we are pumping into the air.
They convert solar light and carbon dioxide into the oxygen that is filling your lungs right now.
Most metal smelters give off an awful lot of carbon dioxide.
And it was kept hot by a thick carbon dioxide atmosphere.
If I were to ask about your lungs, you would say it exchanges oxygen for carbon dioxide.
And in the discussion I attended with global leaders, you know, many say now the problem is that the emerging economies, they are getting out too much carbon dioxide.
Single-celled life that transforms sunlight and carbon dioxide into edible gold.
If you look at carbon dioxide from burning tropical rainforest, or methane coming from cows and rice, or nitrous oxide from too many fertilizers, it turns out agriculture is 30 percent of the greenhouse gases going into the atmosphere from human activity.
In this way, the migration may help keep carbon dioxide out of our atmosphere and limit the effects of global warming on our climate.
The world was so focused on carbon dioxide that we overlooked another important gas.
Pound for pound, its immediate impact is far greater than carbon dioxide.
It turns out that natural gas is displacing our dependence on coal, which emits far more carbon dioxide.
Last year, Americans killed each other at a rate of 5.3 per hundred thousand, had seven percent of their citizens in poverty and emitted 21 million tons of particulate matter and four million tons of sulfur dioxide.
But 30 years ago, the homicide rate was 8.5 per hundred thousand, poverty rate was 12 percent and we emitted 35 million tons of particulate matter and 20 million tons of sulfur dioxide.
If we feed our food waste which is the current government favorite way of getting rid of food waste, to anaerobic digestion, which turns food waste into gas to produce electricity, you save a paltry 448 kilograms of carbon dioxide per ton of food waste.
Here's carbon dioxide, CO2.
Before there was life on earth, all the molecules were small, simple: carbon dioxide, water, nitrogen, just simple things.
There's a dynamic mixture of acetone, isoprene and carbon dioxide that changes when our heart speeds up, when our muscles tense, and all without any obvious change in our behaviors.
I'm actually tracking the carbon dioxide you exhale in the room right now.
It's our collective suspense driving a change in carbon dioxide.
In a nuclear power plant, you have a big pot of water that's under high pressure, and you have some fuel rods, and these fuel rods are encased in zirconium, and they're little pellets of uranium dioxide fuel, and a fission reaction is controlled and maintained at a proper level, and that reaction heats up water, the water turns to steam, steam turns the turbine, and you produce electricity from it.
And the problem with a traditional nuclear power plant like this is, you've got these rods that are clad in zirconium, and inside them are uranium dioxide fuel pellets.
Well, uranium dioxide's a ceramic, and ceramic doesn't like releasing what's inside of it.
First, even if carbon dioxide emissions stopped today, global warming would continue.
When a tree grows in the forest and gives off oxygen and soaks up carbon dioxide, and it dies and it falls to the forest floor, it gives that carbon dioxide back to the atmosphere or into the ground.
One cubic meter of wood will store one tonne of carbon dioxide.
If we built a 20-story building out of cement and concrete, the process would result in the manufacturing of that cement and 1,200 tonnes of carbon dioxide.
Its little carbon molecules that it stored up as it was growing are naturally released back into the atmosphere as carbon dioxide, but this is a net situation.
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