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  2. Biological pump - Wikipedia

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    The reverse process respiration, releases CO 2 back into the water, can increase partial pressure of CO 2 in the seawater, favouring release back to the atmosphere. The formation of calcium carbonate by organisms such as coccolithophores has the effect of releasing CO 2 into the water. [19] [20] [21] [4]

  3. Biological carbon fixation - Wikipedia

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    Cyanobacteria such as these carry out photosynthesis.Their emergence foreshadowed the evolution of many photosynthetic plants and oxygenated Earth's atmosphere.. Biological carbon fixation, or сarbon assimilation, is the process by which living organisms convert inorganic carbon (particularly carbon dioxide, CO 2) to organic compounds.

  4. Respiration (physiology) - Wikipedia

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    During respiration the C-H bonds are broken by oxidation-reduction reaction and so carbon dioxide and water are also produced. The cellular energy-yielding process is called cellular respiration. Classifications of respiration

  5. Electrochemical reduction of carbon dioxide - Wikipedia

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    The electrochemical reduction of carbon dioxide, also known as CO2RR, is the conversion of carbon dioxide (CO 2) to more reduced chemical species using electrical energy. It represents one potential step in the broad scheme of carbon capture and utilization .

  6. Boudouard reaction - Wikipedia

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    The Boudouard reaction, named after Octave Leopold Boudouard, is the redox reaction of a chemical equilibrium mixture of carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide at a given temperature. It is the disproportionation of carbon monoxide into carbon dioxide and graphite or its reverse: [1] 2CO ⇌ CO 2 + C

  7. Gas exchange - Wikipedia

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    Gas exchange is the physical process by which gases move passively by diffusion across a surface. For example, this surface might be the air/water interface of a water body, the surface of a gas bubble in a liquid, a gas-permeable membrane, or a biological membrane that forms the boundary between an organism and its extracellular environment.

  8. Respiratory compensation - Wikipedia

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    The brainstem respiratory centers decrease alveolar ventilation (hypoventilation) to create a rise in arterial carbon dioxide (CO 2) tension, resulting in a decrease of plasma pH. [1] However, as there is limitation for decreasing respiration, respiratory compensation is less efficient at compensating for metabolic alkalosis than for acidosis.

  9. Chloride shift - Wikipedia

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    Carbon dioxide (CO 2) is produced in tissues as a byproduct of normal aerobic metabolism. It dissolves in the solution of blood plasma and into red blood cells (RBC), where carbonic anhydrase catalyzes its hydration to carbonic acid (H 2 CO 3). Carbonic acid then spontaneously dissociates to form bicarbonate Ions (HCO 3 −) and a hydrogen ion ...