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Preferred term

carbon dioxide

Definition

  • [Henderson's] CO2, a gas present in the atmosphere at a concentration of about 362 ppm. The main sources of atmospheric carbon dioxide are biological respiration, of which it is a waste product, combus­tion, and outgassing from the oceans. Carbon dioxide is removed from the atmo­sphere by photosynthesis and by solution in sea-water. Human activity has enhanced the atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide by the burning of fossil fuels and biomass. It is a major greenhouse gas, trap­ping heat in the lower atmosphere.

Broader concept

Entry terms

  • CO2

Scope note

  • US LTER controlled vocabulary

Creator

  • herbert.schentz@umweltbundesamt.at

In other languages

Arabic

  • ثاني أكسيد الكربون

Bulgarian

  • Въглероден двуокис

Croatian

  • ugljični dioksid

Czech

  • oxid uhličitý

Danish

  • carbondioxid

Dutch

  • kooldioxide

Estonian

  • süsinikdioksiid, süsihappegaas

Finnish

  • hiilidioksidi

French

  • dioxyde de carbone

German

  • Kohlendioxid

Greek

  • διοξίδιο του άνθρακα

Hungarian

  • szén-dioxid

Italian

  • diossido di carbonio

Latvian

  • oglekļa dioksīds

Lithuanian

  • anglies dioksidas

Norwegian

  • karbondioksid

Polish

  • dwutlenek węgla

Portuguese

  • dióxido de carbono

Romanian

  • dioxid de carbon

Slovak

  • oxid uhličitý

Slovenian

  • ogljikov dioksid

Spanish

  • dióxido de carbono

Swedish

  • koldioxid

URI

http://vocabs.lter-europe.net/EnvThes/20808

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