sequestration

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Other forms: sequestrations

Sequestration is the seizing of property, or a shutting away. Carbon sequestration.

The legal sense is taking property into custody until a dispute is settled. Carbon sequestration is the modern use and means locking carbon away in rock or in trees.

Definitions of sequestration

1nounsequestrationThe seizing of property, or a shutting away.C2
“Carbon sequestration in the peat is worth more than the timber on it.”

sequestration is a seizing.

Where it comes from

Latin sequestratio comes from sequestrare, to place in safe keeping, from sequester, a trustee.

Proto-Indo-European
*sekʷ-
Latin
sequestrātiō
Middle French
sequestration
English, today
sequestration

From Middle French sequestration, from Latin sequestrātiō, from Latin sequestrō (“sequester”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

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sequestration in the wild

A carbon sink is a natural or artificial carbon sequestration process that "removes a greenhouse gas, an aerosol or a precursor of a greenhouse gas from the atmosphere".
Carbon sink
Carbon sequestration estimates in these areas often do not include the total amount of carbon reductions in soils and slowing tree growth over time.
Afforestation
Carbon sequestration is a natural process of storing carbon in a carbon pool.
Carbon sequestration
Biologic carbon sequestration is a naturally occurring process as part of the carbon cycle.
Carbon sequestration
Critics cite uncertainty about this approach regarding the duration of the effective oceanic carbon sequestration.
Ocean fertilization

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