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carbon dioxide

UK/ˌkɑː.bən daɪˈɒk.saɪd/US/ˌkɑɹ.bən daɪˈɑk.saɪd/
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Carbon dioxide is the gas we breathe out, and the main one that traps heat. Levels of carbon dioxide.

Plants take it in and build themselves out of it, so a tree is mostly air. Carbon dioxide stays in the atmosphere for centuries once it is there.

Alessio Damato · Public domain

Definitions of carbon dioxide

  1. 1nouncarbon dioxideThe gas we breathe out, and the main one that traps heat.B2

    “Carbon dioxide passed four hundred parts per million in 2013.”

carbon dioxide is a gas.

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