Plants carbon chemistry

Keeling, C. D. (1973a). The carbon dioxide cycle. Reservoir models to depict the exchange of atmospheric carbon dioxide with the oceans and land plants. In "Chemistry of the Lower Atmosphere" (S. Rasool, ed.), pp. 251-329. Plenum Press, New York. 

Licence, P., J. Ke, M. Sokolova, S.K. Ross and M. Poliakoff, Chemical Reactions in Supercritical Carbon Dioxide From Laboratory to Commercial Plant, Green Chemistry, 5, 99-104 (2003). 

Organic In gemmology, a material derived from or produced by living animals or plants. In chemistry organic denotes a compound of carbon. 

As said above, plant root chemistry may also influence deeply alpine soil microorganism s biomass. It turns out that the particular chemical composition of exudates is a strong selective force in favour of bacteria that can catabolize particular compounds. Plants support heterotrophic microorganisms by way of rhizodeposition of root exudates and litter from dead tissue that include phenolic acids, flavonoids, terpenoids, carbohydrates, hydroxamic acids, aminoacids, denatured protein from dying root cells, CO2, and ethylene (Wardle, 1992). In certain plants, as much as 20-30% of fixed carbon may be lost as rhizodeposition (Lynch and Whipps, 1990). Most of these compounds enter the soil nutrient cycle by way of the soil microbiota, giving rise to competition between the myriad species living there, from microarthropods and nematodes to mycorrhiza and bacteria, for these resources (e.g. Hoover and Crossley, 1995). There is evidence that root phenolic exudates are metabolized preferentially by some soil microbes, while the same compounds are toxic to others. Phenolic acids usually occur in small concentration in soil chiefly because of soil metabolism while adsorption in clay and other soil particles plays a minor role (Bliun et al., 1999). However, their phytotoxicity is compounded by synergism between particular mixtures (Blum, 1996). 

Urushiol yu- rii-she- 61, ii-, - ol [ISV, fr. Japanese urushi lacquer -f ISV -ol] (1908) n. A mixture of pyrocatechol derivatives with saturated or unsaturated side chains of 15 or 17 carbon atoms that is an oily toxic irritant principle present in poison ivy and some related plants (genus Rhus) and in oriental lacquers derived from such plants. Langenheim JH (2003) Plant resins chemistry, evolution ecology and ethnobotany. Timber Press, Portland, OR Paint pigment, drying oils, polymers, resins, naval stores, cellulosics esters, and ink vehicles, vol 3. American Society for Testing and Material, Conshohocken, PA, 2001. 

The carbon compounds individuated and identified in carbon chemistry—the remaining stoichiometric plant and animal substances and the pure carbon compounds isolated from coal tar, as well as the artificial carbon compounds created in the laboratory—were nested in extended networks of experiments and work on paper. In the late 1840s, when the culture of carbon chemistry was firmly established, the individuation and identification of carbon compounds required quantitative elemental analysis, control of stoichiometric purity by studies of the chemical properties and reactions of a substance, experimental examination of their proximate components or constitution (later structure ), and work on paper with chemical formulae to demarcate the substances and to model their constitution and chemical reactions. Analysis of composition (qualitative and quantitative), control of purity, studies of reactions, and modeling on paper allowed chemists to draw ever more sophisticated... 

Environmental Chemistry. Carbon dioxide plays a vital role ia the earth s environment. It is a constituent ia the atmosphere and, as such, is a necessary ingredient ia the life cycle of animals and plants. 

Chemical scaling is another form of fouling that occurs in NF and RO plants. The thermodynamic solubility of salts such as calcium carbonate and calcium and barium sulfate imposes an upper boundary on the system recovery. Thus, it is essential to operate systems at recoveries lower than this critical value to avoid chemical scaling, unless the water chemistry is adjusted to prevent precipitation. It is possible to increase system recovery by either adjusting the pH or adding an antisealant, or both. 

The compounds of carbon furnish one of the most intriguing aspects of all of chemistry. One reason they interest us is that they play a dominant role in the chemistry of living things, both plant and animal. Another reason is that there are innumerable carbon compounds useful to man—dyes, drugs, detergents, plastics, perfumes, fibers, fabrics, flavors, fuels—many of them tailored to suit particular needs. Manufacture of... 

In our world, most chemical processes occur in contact with the Earth s atmosphere at a virtually constant pressure. For example, plants convert carbon dioxide and water into complex molecules animals digest food water heaters and stoves bum fiiel and mnning water dissolves minerals from the soil. All these processes involve energy changes at constant pressure. Nearly all aqueous-solution chemistry also occurs at constant pressure. Thus, the heat flow measured using constant-pressure calorimetry, gp, closely approximates heat flows in many real-world processes. As we saw in the previous section, we cannot equate this heat flow to A because work may be involved. We can, however, identify a new thermod mamic function that we can use without having to calculate work. Before doing this, we need to describe one type of work involved in constant-pressure processes. 

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