From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@yahoo.com)
Date: Sun Jul 13 2003 - 20:29:40 MDT
Just what is meant by 'organic carbon'? Is this carbon currently
present in organic chemicals of various sorts?
Otherwise, there is approximately 52 atmospheres worth of carbon locked
up in the earth's limestone deposits.
I have read in National Geographic pieces on the water supply that all
life on earth (which is allegedly 75% water) comprises something like
0.1% of all water on earth.
--- "Amara D. Angelica" <amara@kurzweilai.net> wrote:
> According to Robert Bradbury in
> http://www.aeiveos.com/~bradbury/Papers/GWiaRH.html, "Hunt [1] has
> calculated there are 1.55×10^19 kg of organic carbon on the Earth."
> Based on that figure, and assuming all "organic carbon" is contained
> in
> "biomass," the total number of carbon atoms in the biomass would be
> 7.8
> x 10^44. Comments?
>
> [1] Hunt, J. M., Petroleum Geochemistry and Geology, W. H. Freeman
> (1979, 1996)
>
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