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Definition of Gigatons
1. gigaton [n] - See also: gigaton
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gigatons
Literary usage of Gigatons
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Sustainability in the Chemical Industry: Grand Challenges and Research Needs by National Research Council (U. S.) (2006)
"There are about 75 gigatons of carbon in natural gas, 120 gigatons of carbon in
oil, 900- plus gigatons in recoverable coal and about 250 gigatons each in ..."
2. How the World Will Change With Global Warming by Trausti Valsson (2006)
"Within both of these actors there is almost a balance; soil and vegetation on
land releases, and receives, about 75 gigatons of CO2, the oceans somewhat ..."
3. Preparing for Climate Change: Proceedings, Second North American Conference (1993)
"By the year 2020 the figure for tropical forest emissions of carbon could climb
to almost 5 gigatons—after which it would decline sharply for the simple ..."
4. Proceedings of the U. S. Geological Survey Global Change Research Forum edited by John A. Kelmelis, Mitchell Snow (1994)
"The net budget "imbalance" in each case is thought to represent terrestrial CO2
uptake, units: gigatons carbon per year] Reference I: Keeling and others, ..."
5. Probability of Sea Level Rise by James G. Titus, Vijay K. Narayanan (1998)
"For the year 2100, Nordhaus & Yohe have a median of about 14 gigatons (Gt) per
year of carbon and a geometric mean of 19 Gt/yr, while both our ..."
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