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biological pump

biological pump noun: the collection of biological ocean processes that regulate the uptake, storage, and release of carbon.

Noun

biological pump (plural biological pumps)

  1. (earth science) The collection of biological ocean processes that regulate the uptake, storage, and release of carbon.
    • Thus, changes in the magnitude of the ocean's biological pump may have had a large influence on the f_(CO2) of the atmosphere in the past and could also be important in controlling future f_(CO2).2008, Steven R. Emerson, John Hedges, chapter 11, in Chemical Oceanography and the Marine Carbon Cycle, →ISBN, page 376

Forms of biological pump

pluralbiological pumps

Questions about biological pump

What does biological pump mean?
Biological pump means the collection of biological ocean processes that regulate the uptake, storage, and release of carbon.
What part of speech is biological pump?
Biological pump is a noun.
What is the plural of biological pump?
The plural of biological pump is biological pumps.

Words near biological pump in the dictionary

  1. biological passports
  2. biological psychologies
  3. biological psychologist
  4. biological psychologists
  5. biological psychology
  6. biological pump
  7. biological pumps
  8. biological racism
  9. biological sex
  10. biological sexes
  11. biological time

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