carbon dioxide
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Understanding of how carbon dioxide warms the atmosphere goes back more than a century.
From Los Angeles Times
The film lives in its details — frost creeping along the walls, carbon dioxide levels rising, improvised fixes worked out step by step — as each small success only leads to the next crisis.
From Los Angeles Times
This system oxygenated the blood, removed carbon dioxide, and supported circulation, allowing the heart and other organs to continue functioning even though the patient had no lungs.
From Science Daily
Tariffs hit operating profit by 1.2 billion euros, while expenses for provisions relating to carbon dioxide regulation, restructuring and the postponement of an electric-vehicle platform all also hit earnings, it said.
Their research explores ways to use sunlight to convert waste materials, water and the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide into useful chemicals and fuels.
From Science Daily
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