dioxide
- noun
- /daɪˈɒksaɪd/
- Specialized
- Carbon dioxide is a key component in the process of photosynthesis.
- carbon dioxide
- carbon dioxide emissions
- dioxide (CO2)
What free divers train is carbon dioxide tolerance.
- What free divers train is carbon dioxide tolerance.
- And and on IO, the water and carbon dioxide are not there.
- As far as stratospheric sulfur dioxide injection, that's no.
- Our loops answer this liquid carbon dioxide cooling system.
- So this is the short happy life of Interstate trading of sulfur dioxide allowances.
Examples
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We need to remember that every breath they take increases carbon dioxide levels.
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Carbon dioxide levels at maximum.
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Now, how is carbon dioxide changed into oxygen?
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Plants, they will bring in carbon dioxide and breathe out oxygen.
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Carbon dioxide is leaking from the ground.
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The burning of fossil fuels has increased the carbon dioxide content of the atmosphere.
Academic text (1999) -
In a year or maybe even less, they'll start noticing the carbon dioxide levels going down.
Fiction book (2001) -
When we started, fossil fuel burning pumped six billion tons of carbon dioxide into the air every year.
Fiction book (2001) -
High levels of carbon dioxide can contribute to global warming.
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To measure air quality, scientists often monitor carbon dioxide concentrations.
Compounds
A colorless gas without smell that people and cars make and plants use to make oxygen
- Specialized
A colorless gas with a strong bad smell that harms breathing and pollutes the air
- Specialized
A white powder used to make paints, sunscreens, and toothpaste bright white
- Specialized
When the lungs cannot remove carbon dioxide, too much builds up in the blood and makes it acidic
- Specialized
A brown poisonous gas that pollutes the air and causes breathing problems
- Specialized
A white material that breaks down dirt and germs when light shines and helps clean air or water
- Specialized
A white hard material used to make strong ceramics like dental crowns and heat-resistant linings
How Oxygenated
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word dioxide comes from di- meaning 'two' and oxide, which shows it has oxygen. So a dioxide is a chemical with 'two' oxygen atoms joined to another element, which is why carbon dioxide has two oxygen atoms in each molecule.