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biological pumps

biological pumps is the plural of biological pump.

Meaning of biological pump

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

Questions about biological pumps

What is biological pumps the plural of?
Biological pumps is the plural of biological pump.

Words near biological pumps in the dictionary

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

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