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How does carbon dioxide enter the atmosphere?

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Carbon dioxide (CO2) is released from various sources such as living beings, industries, automobiles, burning of fossil fuels, etc.

Respiration from plants and animals.
Decay of plant and animal matter. This converts to carbon dioxide in the presence of oxygen, or into methane if there is no oxygen.
Burning of any organic material oxidizes the carbon to produce carbon dioxide.
- Burning fossil fuels releases CO2 that has been stored for millions of years.
- Burning biofuels releases CO2 that has been stored for only a few years, or less.
Production of cement. When limestone is heated to produce lime, CO2 is released.
As the oceans become warmer, CO2 is released from the surface.
Volcanoes emit water vapor, CO2 and sulfur dioxide. Silicate weathering is a process that removes CO2 and the two processes, the chemical reverse of each other, cancel each other out.

Carbon dioxide is manufactured mainly from seven processes:

As a by-product in ammonia and hydrogen plants, where methane is converted to CO2;
from combustion of wood and fossil fuels;
as a by-product of fermentation of sugar in the brewing of beer, whiskey and other alcoholic beverages;
from thermal decomposition of limestone, CaCO3,
in the manufacture of lime, CaO,
as a by-product of sodium phosphate manufacture,
directly from natural carbon dioxide springs, where it is produced by the action of acidified water on limestone or dolomite.

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The two main ways that carbon enters the atmosphere is by combustion and bio process. CO2 or CO are the main two atmospheric carbon gases. Carbon monoxide is formed when a hydro-carbon fuel is burned without sufficient oxygen. This gas is still combustible this is what a catalytic converter does, it burns the unburned fuel and carbon monoxide into CO2. The modern gas engine does a poor job of efficiently burning fuel, mainly because the piston dynamics is so poor in a crank driven piston. Carbon is also part of many volatile chemicals which can evaporate into the air.
combustion
death & respiration
when people breathe, we release carbon dioxide, the gas for of carbon, into the atmosphere. with too few trees to use it to make oxygen, we have global warming.
When animals and plants respire, we release carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. In addition, some cars release fuels such as carbon dioxide.
by circulation

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