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If another tree grows in the spot where your wood was harvested, it could potentially suck enough carbon out of the atmosphere to counteract the emissions of your campfire.

They will thus require just as much energy and investment to counteract.

So if you press one, that inadvertently presses other levers that counteract its effect.

From Vox

If the finding is broadly true for temperate trees, it could mean that these forests have a limit to how much carbon they can absorb every year, lessening their ability to counteract emissions from humans.

Designed to counteract the effect of gravity on a pocket watch’s accuracy, the tourbillon mounts the watch’s critical timekeeping components in a rotating cage.

From Fortune

In the meantime the opposite party made efforts of counteraction.

This daily paper would form a very strong counteraction to the ale-house.

The second is the cause or tragic impulse of the counteraction, and stands between the climax and the fall or untying of the knot.

It was the mighty counteraction of free labor that crushed slavery.

Catalytics may not remain beyond a certain time; their office is counteraction.

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On this page you'll find 37 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to counteraction, such as: balance, counterattack, counterbalance, counterblow, countermove, and counteroffensive.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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