Example sentences of "[to-vb] carbon [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Confederation of British Industry ( CBI ) has added its weight to the lobby for an environmentally friendly national transport policy and called for a series of measures to curb carbon dioxide emissions . |
| 2 | An analysis of data collected over the past 50 years by national forestry ministries shows , however , that there has been a sharp decline in the volume of boreal wood " and hence the capacity to absorb carbon dioxide " since the 1960s , as a result of more intensive logging and increased dieback because of the effects of acid rain , pests and fires . |
| 3 | Soviet hesitations were evident when Budyko told a climate change conference in Hamburg in November 1988 that it might be better to increase carbon dioxide emissions to encourage warming . |
| 4 | THE GOVERNMENT 'S involvement in undermining attempts to freeze carbon dioxide emissions by the year 2000 ( Guardian , November 8 ) should perhaps be viewed together with the Department of Transport 's recently announced road-building programme , and projections that UK road traffic will increase by about 43 per cent over the next 20-30 years . |
| 5 | Labour is pledged to freeze carbon dioxide emissions at 1990 levels by the year 2000 ; that is five years ahead of the Government 's pledge . |
| 6 | Dr Ken Currie , the head of the government 's Energy Technology Support Unit , had similar reservations when he told the Cabinet at a seminar on climate change in April 1989 that technically it was possible to halve carbon dioxide emissions ( the longer-term Toronto objective ) . |
| 7 | There is no evidence to suggest that the chimney was capped deliberately to cause carbon monoxide poisoning . |
| 8 | A plant 's mode of existence is shaped by the fact that it can survive , biochemically , by making use of the sun 's energy to trap carbon dioxide and convert it to the foodstuffs , such as sugar , that it requires . |
| 9 | The coke burns with the oxygen in the air to give carbon dioxide C + O2 = CO2 and becomes even hotter since this is a highly energy-releasing ( exothermic ) process in which 97 kilocalories are released for every gram-molecule ( mole ) of carbon dioxide formed . |
| 10 | Methane 's four hydrogen atoms are replaced by two oxygen atoms to give carbon dioxide . |
| 11 | The platinum catalyses the reaction of carbon monoxide and hydrocarbons with air to give carbon dioxide and water vapour . |
| 12 | Combustion : Alkenes burn to give carbon dioxide and water . |
| 13 | Eventually a temperature is reached where the endothermic ( heat absorbing ) reaction of carbon dioxide with the hot coke to give carbon monoxide starts , CO 2 + C = 200 ( H = +39 kcal/mol ) |
| 14 | As soon as they are formed , the 14 C atoms rapidly combine with oxygen to form carbon dioxide which is chemically indistinguishable from carbon dioxide containing either of the other carbon isotopes . |
| 15 | Because oxygen is so reactive , it can ‘ burn ’ organic molecules efficiently — breaking them down thoroughly , ultimately to form carbon dioxide and water . |
| 16 | When they are burned , their carbon combines with oxygen from the atmosphere to form carbon dioxide gas . |
| 17 | With this ‘ chemically correct ’ mixture , all the hydrogen and carbon in the fuel combine with all the oxygen in the air to form carbon dioxide and water . |
| 18 | Combustion : Ethyne burns to form carbon dioxide and water . |
| 19 | Combustion : Benzene burns to form carbon dioxide and water . |
| 20 | The complete oxidation of one molecule of glucose to form carbon dioxide and water provides sufficient energy to recharge 38 molecules of ADP . |
| 21 | Down in the heart of the coke the limited supply of air is reacting with the carbon to form carbon monoxide . |
| 22 | But at the rate emissions of CFCs are growing , the gases are likely to overtake carbon dioxide as principal contributors to the global warming problem . |
| 23 | The Energy Committee 's own calculation was that it would require a 90 per cent increase in gas consumption worldwide to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 10 per cent . |
| 24 | Even if we were pledged to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 30 per cent by 2005 ( as the Liberal Democrats are arguing ) , instead of just stabilising them , nobody need lose out . |
| 25 | It has been estimated that , just to prevent any further warming of the Earth 's atmosphere , we need to reduce carbon dioxide production — by 50% according to Government estimates and by 80% according to environmental organisations . |
| 26 | The European Commission on May 13 approved proposals for an energy tax designed to reduce carbon dioxide emissions . |
| 27 | European Community environment ministers have agreed in principle to introduce an energy tax to reduce carbon dioxide emissions and combat global warming . |
| 28 | It is becoming increasingly clear , the programme claimed , that the EC will not be able to meet its commitment to reduce carbon dioxide emissions to 1990 levels by the year 2000 without introducing a tax on fossil fuels and other forms of energy . |
| 29 | The EC has agreed to reduce carbon dioxide emissions to 1990 levels by the year 2000 . |
| 30 | The European Commission on May 13 approved an energy tax designed to reduce carbon dioxide emissions . |