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Go through the process of PHOTOSYNTHESIS.
Carbon in carbon dioxide dissolved in the ocean becomes part of sugar in a plant through photosynthesis. Sugar can become a building block the plant uses to grow. Or, the plant can burn sugar for energy, using the energy from sunlight that was stored as chemical energy through photosynthesis.
The carbon compounds that plants produce and the energy they capture from the sun are the source of all the food and energy that animals will ever consume. All the energy for life on earth comes from the sun!
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.
Photosynthesis means "putting light together."
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 dissolved in water can move into the atmosphere by random motion. This ongoing air-sea gas exchange at the surface boundary is a constant back-and-forth. Higher temperatures mean more motion of molecules and an increased rate of diffusion in warmer water regions, like the tropics.
The amount of carbon dioxide water can 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 as the dissolved carbon dioxide 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 oceana have carbon dioxide dissolved in them, dispersed throughout, but in the oceans there are more forms of dissolved carbon and more ways for carbon to react.
Like the soil, the oceans contain lots of suspended carbon in various states from decaying plant and animal bodies.
CO2 + H2O => H2CO3 => HCO3- + H+ => CO32- + 2H
Carbon Dioxide + Water => Carbonic Acid => Bicarbonate + Hydrogen Ion => Carbonate + Hydrogen Ions
Through the carbonate reactions dissolved carbon exists as carbonic acid, bicarbonate and carbonate.
Learn much more with Wikipedia: Ocean
