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二氧化碳

èr yǎng huà tàn

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 6 4-character word

二氧化碳 (èr yǎng huà tàn) means "carbon dioxide". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 二氧化碳 means

1. carbon dioxide CO2

The characters in 二氧化碳

• 二èrtwo; 2; (Beijing dialect) stupid
• 氧yǎngoxygen (chemistry)
• 化huàto make into; to change into; -ization
• 碳tàncarbon (chemistry)

Example sentences

• 树木排出氧气，吸收二氧化碳。
  Shùmù páichū yǎngqì, xīshōu èryǎnghuàtàn.
  Trees give off oxygen and absorb carbon dioxide.
• 二氧化碳是燃烧煤、石油或天然气这样的燃料时会产生的气体。
  èryǎnghuàtàn shì ránshāo méi, shíyóu huò tiānránqì zhèyàng de ránliào shí huì chǎnshēng de qìtǐ.
  Carbon dioxide is a gas that is produced every time a fuel such as coal, oil, or natural gas is burned.
• 这个词指的是由于大气层里二氧化碳含量增多而导致全球变暖。
  Zhège cí zhǐ de shì yóuyú dàqìcéng lǐ èryǎnghuàtàn hánliàng zēngduō ér dǎozhì quánqiúbiànnuǎn.
  It is a term used to describe the warming of the earth due to increasing amounts of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
• 红树林吸取二氧化碳比地球上其他树木都要多，因为它们具有很大的地下根部结构。
  Mangroves sequester more carbon than any other trees on Earth because they have quite a large underground root structure.

Words starting with 二氧化碳

• 二氧化碳隔离èr yǎng huà tàn gé lícarbon sequestration; carbon dioxide sequestration

Where 二氧化碳 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · ēn–fā (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read èr yǎng huà tàn correctly.
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