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Go through the process of PHOTOSYNTHESIS.
Like plants on land, plants in water perform photosynthesis—meaning "putting light together". Marine plants use carbon dioxide that's dissolved in the water, where land plants take it from the atmosphere. The carbon dioxide is combined with water using the energy of sunlight. The oxygen released in the process remains dissolved in the water where it can be "breathed" in by aquatic animals.
BEGIN AS: Carbon Dioxide. BECOME: Plant Biomass.
6 CO2 + 6 H2O + photon => C6H12O6 + 6 O2
Carbon Dioxide + Water + Light => Sugar + Oxygen
Energy from the sun is converted into chemical bond energy in sugar in the process of photosynthesis.
Learn much more with Wikipedia: Photosynthesis
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Let's bounce! Take a random walkabout in the sky. Every carbon atom should see the world from on high. Drift into the ATMOSPHERE!
Go through the process of DIFFUSION.
Carbon dioxide suspended in water can move into the atmosphere by random motion at the surface, through the ongoing air-sea gas exchange. The rate of this process increases in warmer water regions, like the tropics. Higher temperatures mean more motion of molecules.
The amount of carbon dioxide water will hold depends on temperature and pressure. When you open a bottle of soda pop—a carbonated beverage—the pressure decreases dramatically and you see bubbles of carbon dioxide as it comes out of solution.
BEGIN AS: Dissolved CO2. BECOME: Atmospheric CO2.
Rate of Change in Concentration = Difference in Concentration Between Two Regions
Things move from areas of high concentration to areas of low concentration in the process of diffusion.
Learn much more with Wikipedia: Diffusion, Diffusion_equation
You are Carbon in the Ocean
Exploring the depths and riding tides in this vast blue body. The ocean can seem bottomless, at times ...
Oceans hold around fifty times more carbon dioxide than the atmosphere. Like the atmosphere, the ocean has carbon dioxide suspended in it, but in the ocean there are more ways for carbon dioxide to react, and many other forms of dissolved carbon. Like the soil, the ocean holds lots of carbon from decaying plant and animal bodies in various states.
Learn much more with Wikipedia: Ocean
