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Key to speeding up carbon sequestration discovered

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Phys.org

Publication Date
2017-07-18

Scientists at Caltech and USC have discovered a way to speed up the slow part of the chemical reaction that ultimately helps the earth to safely lock away, or sequester, carbon dioxide into the ocean. Simply adding a common enzyme to the mix, the researchers have found, can make that rate-limiting part of the process go 500 times faster.

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https://phys.org/news/2017-07-key-carbon-sequestration.html