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carbon storage n. (originally) the retention of carbon fixed by a plant or microorganism; (in later use also) = carbon sequestration n.
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1916 Sci. Monthly Sept. 294 With the simplest bacteria which live directly on the lifeless world we find that most of the fundamental chemical energies of the living world are already established, namely..the protein and carbon storage, the primary food supply of the living world.
1989 S. H. Schneider Global Warming (1990) vi. 178 Spruce, fir, and hardwood forests would be replaced ‘by a stunted pine-oak forest of much lower carbon storage’.
2010 Science 29 Oct. 596/1 Similar modeling strategies have been adopted to investigate carbon storage in complex, inaccessible, and chemically heterogeneous geological media such as saline aquifers and unmineable coal seams.
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d. Originally: of or relating to carbon metabolism in organisms, and the cycling of carbon compounds in natural ecosystems, to which the photosynthetic fixation of carbon dioxide is central; (in later use also) of or relating to carbon compounds in the atmosphere as associated with climate change (cf. sense 1c); as carbon assimilation, carbon budget, carbon economy, carbon source, carbon storage, etc.
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1890 Polit. Sci. Q. 5 566 Man, the carbon-source, and the cabbage, the oxygen producer, typify two poles of an economic order.
1916 Sci. Monthly Sept. 294 With the simplest bacteria which live directly on the lifeless world we find that most of the fundamental chemical energies of the living world are already established, namely..the protein and carbon storage, the primary food supply of the living world.
a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) II. 1204 The discovery of the process of carbon assimilation (also called photosynthesis)..is an interesting chapter in the history of science.
1957 Bot. Gaz. 121 31/1 A consideration of the carbon economy for the highly efficient utilization of CO2 by these plants.
1967 Water Res. 1 147 The carbon budget concept: a quantitative measure of trophic state.
1989 S. H. Schneider Global Warming (1990) vi. 178 Spruce, fir, and hardwood forests would be replaced ‘by a stunted pine-oak forest of much lower carbon storage’.
1993 N.Y. Times 8 June c4/1 For years, scientists concerned about the environmental effects of burning fossil fuels have tried to balance the global carbon budget.
2002 Kew Winter 4/1 The invasive trees and shrubs that are encroaching onto many areas of natural grassland were thought to be a particularly important carbon sink, helping to balance the nation's ‘carbon budget’.
2002 BusinessWeek 4 Nov. 12/4 Energy and environment broker Natsource is building a carbon ‘bank’. Companies would deposit emissions cuts and get credit for them under various trading plans.
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