Example sentences of "in carbon [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When a plant or animal dies it ceases to participate in carbon exchange with the biosphere and no longer takes in 14 C. If 14 C were stable , its concentration relative to 12 C would remain constant after death , but , since it is not . |
| 2 | The consensus is that stabilizing the climate ( i.e. halting the warming ) will require a 50 per cent cut in carbon dioxide emissions . |
| 3 | The Electricity Council told the Energy Committee that it would be possible to meet the Toronto Conference target of a 20 per cent reduction in carbon dioxide emissions by 2005 . |
| 4 | However , carbon produces more then 3.5 times its own weight in carbon dioxide so there is a problem in disposing of it . |
| 5 | Energy efficiency , natural gas and the limited contribution to electricity supplies from renewable resources will not be enough to contain increases in carbon dioxide and provide for the needs of a fast-expanding world population . |
| 6 | However , the rise in carbon dioxide does parallel the growth of industry . |
| 7 | Carbon dioxide emissions The UN estimates that a reduction in carbon dioxide emissions of 20% by 2005 will be necessary to avoid potentially disastrous effects of global warming . |
| 8 | These include a 30% reduction in carbon dioxide emissions from the UK by the year 2005 ; our energy policy is geared to this target . |
| 9 | They take in carbon dioxide for photosynthesis by opening their stomata ( pores — see p.95 ) only at night , and then store the carbon dioxide until the following day , when the sun is shining . |
| 10 | When pumping in carbon dioxide failed to have any effect on the blaze , a site emergency was called . |
| 11 | But plans , such as Australia 's aim of 20 per cent cuts in carbon dioxide emissions by the year 2005 , mean that everyone should make that 20 per cent cut in the emissions they generate , directly and indirectly . |
| 12 | Green plants and trees need to take in carbon dioxide ( in a process called ‘ photosynthesis ’ ) so that they can manufacture carbohydrates and other materials . |
| 13 | By and large , climatologists agree that two ‘ perturbations ’ have been affecting trends in temperature during the present century : the warming influence of this increase in carbon dioxide , and the variable cooling influence produced when great volcanic eruptions spread dust high into the stratosphere , blocking some of the heat from the Sun . |
| 14 | Since Polygas comprises a small amount of acetone in carbon dioxide , the danger from an accidental release is low . |
| 15 | The majority of vehicles pounding the British countryside produce four times their own weight in carbon dioxide every year . |
| 16 | In ideal conditions where the surrounding water is high in oxygen and low in carbon dioxide the gases move across the gill membrane ( oxygen in , carbon dioxide out ) to put the gas equilibrium into balance between the inside of the gill and the outside . |
| 17 | The world of four billion years ago was swathed in carbon dioxide , producing a massive Venus-like greenhouse effect . |
| 18 | The biggest growth in carbon dioxide emissions , implicated in the major problem confronting humanity 's survival , is from road transport . |
| 19 | This air is richer in carbon dioxide and it will thus quickly replenish the carbon dioxide you have been blowing off . |
| 20 | If you measure the atmospheric rise in carbon dioxide due to fossil fuel burning , you 'll see that it 's only about one half of that predicted if all of the coal and oil that had been burnt since the industrial revolution had gone into the atmosphere , we would probably have er an increase in C O two double what we can actually measure . |
| 21 | The southern hemisphere polar region may play a smaller role in carbon dioxide balance but it is primarily responsible for cooling the deep ocean . |
| 22 | That is taking in carbon dioxide and water , and forming carbohydrates and oxygen . |
| 23 | Annual increases in carbon dioxide emissions have slowed in recent decades from an average annual rate of 4.5 per cent in the 1960s to less than 2.5 per cent per year since . |
| 24 | For those who still feel that we are lagging , let me say that Britain is one of only a handful of countries to have set a target for reductions in carbon dioxide . |
| 25 | John Wakeham , the Secretary of State for Energy , attributed the increases to the government 's decision in November 1989 to freeze until 1994 plans to build three other PWRs , and restated the government 's commitment to Sizewell as contributing to a reduction in carbon dioxide emissions ( one of the " greenhouse gases " ) . |
| 26 | Thus carbon and oxygen are invariably combined in a fixed and definite proportion in carbon dioxide . |
| 27 | It reduces the carbon in carbon dioxide . |
| 28 | No cut in carbon dioxide emission is planned , merely stabilisation by 2005 . |
| 29 | * Meanwhile , a report for the European Commission has shown how EC countries could implement a 20 per cent cut in carbon dioxide emissions over the next 15 years ( by 2005 ) at a cost that is almost negligible . |
| 30 | The United States Administration 's Office of Technology Assessment has claimed that the US could achieve cuts of up to 35 per cent in carbon dioxide emissions over the next 25 years without " major technological breakthroughs " or recourse to swingeing levies on energy consumption . |