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  2. Biological pump - Wikipedia

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    These three pumps are: (1) the solubility pump, (2) the carbonate pump, and (3) the biological pump. The total active pool of carbon at the Earth's surface for durations of less than 10,000 years is roughly 40,000 gigatons C (Gt C, a gigaton is one billion tons, or the weight of approximately 6 million blue whales ), and about 95% (~38,000 Gt C ...

  3. Biotic pump - Wikipedia

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    The biotic pump is a theoretical concept that shows how forests create and control winds coming up from the ocean and in doing so bring water to the forests further inland. This theory could explain the role forests play in the water cycle : trees take up water from the soil and microscopic pores on the leaves release unused water as vapor into ...

  4. Electron transport chain - Wikipedia

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    A common feature of all electron transport chains is the presence of a proton pump to create an electrochemical gradient over a membrane. Bacterial electron transport chains may contain as many as three proton pumps, like mitochondria, or they may contain two or at least one.

  5. Abiotic component - Wikipedia

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    In biology and ecology, abiotic components or abiotic factors are non-living chemical and physical parts of the environment that affect living organisms and the functioning of ecosystems.

  6. Particulate inorganic carbon - Wikipedia

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    The carbonate pump, sometimes called the carbonate counter pump, starts with marine organisms at the ocean's surface producing particulate inorganic carbon (PIC) in the form of calcium carbonate (calcite or aragonite, CaCO 3). This CaCO 3 is what forms hard body parts like shells. [5]

  7. Solute pumping - Wikipedia

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    Solute pumping is a form of active transport of a solute through a cell membrane.Solute pumping allows a molecule that cannot regularly cross the lipid bilayer (because of concentration gradient, polarity, or other reasons) to enter the cell by way of a protein channel.

  8. Dying To Be Free - The Huffington Post

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    Neither Suboxone nor methadone is a miracle cure. They buy addicts time to fix their lives, seek out counseling and allow their brains to heal. Doctors recommend tapering off the medication only with the greatest of caution. The process can take years given that addiction is a chronic disease and effective therapy can be a long, grueling affair.

  9. Proton pump - Wikipedia

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    Complex I (EC 1.6.5.3) (also referred to as NADH:ubiquinone oxidoreductase or, especially in the context of the human protein, NADH dehydrogenase) is a proton pump driven by electron transport. It belongs to the H + or Na +-translocating NADH Dehydrogenase (NDH) Family (TC# 3.D.1), a member of the Na + transporting Mrp superfamily.