Synonyms for carbon dioxide
car·bon diox·ide

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1. carbon dioxidenoun

   Synonyms:
   carbonic acid gas, CO₂, E290, acidity regulator

2. carbon dioxidenoun

   The normal oxide of carbon, CO; a colorless, odorless gas formed during respiration and combustion and consumed by plants during photosynthesis.

   Synonyms:
   acidity regulator, carbonic acid gas, CO₂, E290

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1. carbon dioxide, CO2, carbonic acid gasnoun

   a heavy odorless colorless gas formed during respiration and by the decomposition of organic substances; absorbed from the air by plants in photosynthesis

   Synonyms:
   carbonic acid gas

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1. carbon dioxide

   Synonyms:
   CO2

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1. Professor Veerabhadran Ramanathan:

   For a long time, we thought carbon dioxide from fossil fuels was the main man-made greenhouse gas harming the planet. That changed overnight when in 1975 I published this paper in which I discovered that there are other gases in the atmosphere which are even more potent.

2. Bruce Robertson:

   So instead of building a massively expensive cable, simply put in the solar farm … create the hydrogen, put in the nitrogen, if you want ammonia, (or) carbon dioxide, if you want synthetic green methane, or just straight hydrogen, and ship that to Singapore, because that’s what they’re telling me they want. the shipping part has never been done, there’s nothing to work off – you’re really breaking new ground.

3. Robert Jackson:

   For carbon dioxide, we've always known about power plants and smokestacks and things like that ; but with methane, until recent years, we didn't understand how much an influence a small number of large sources have really had, we didn't understand how long the tail was and how important the super-emitters were for reducing emissions.

4. Gavin Schmidt:

   This warming has been driven in large part by increased emissions into the atmosphere of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases caused by human activities.

5. Sylvain Piqueux:

   Because carbon dioxide ice has a symmetry of four, we know dry-ice snowflakes would be cube-shaped, thanks to the Mars Climate Sounder, we can tell these snowflakes would be smaller than the width of a human hair.