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sequestration
[ see-kwes-trey-shuhn, si-kwes- ]
noun
- removal or separation; banishment or exile.
- a withdrawal into seclusion; retirement.
- segregation from others; isolation:
sequestration of jurors during a trial.
- Law.
- the sequestering of property.
- confiscation or seizure.
- Chemistry. the combining of metallic ions with a suitable reagent into a stable, soluble complex in order to prevent the ions from combining with a substance with which they would otherwise have formed an insoluble precipitate, from causing interference in a particular reaction, or from acting as undesirable catalysts.
- the trapping of a chemical in the atmosphere or environment and its isolation in a natural or artificial storage area:
Carbon sequestration can reduce global warming.
- the process of implementing an automatic cut in government spending across most departments, agencies, etc.:
efforts to avoid or delay sequestration.
- an instance of this:
An $80 billion sequestration would lead to massive layoffs.
sequestration
/ ˌːɛˈٰɪʃə /
noun
- the act of sequestering or state of being sequestered
- law the sequestering of property
- chem the effective removal of ions from a solution by coordination with another type of ion or molecule to form complexes that do not have the same chemical behaviour as the original ions See also sequestrant
Other yvlog Forms
- ԴDzȴ·ܱ·ٰtDz noun
yvlog History and Origins
Origin of sequestration1
Example Sentences
The study's findings are helping piece together the puzzle of wetland carbon sequestration on a global scale.
The analysis findings are further used in the monitoring and evaluation layer to examine forest health, biodiversity, carbon sequestration, and ecosystem services.
Letting that land "get back to that native forest land as much as possible is going to help immensely with both carbon sequestration and biodiversity opportunities," said Panescu Scott.
“Carbon sequestration of urban trees is very short lived,” Love said.
The changes appeared to respond to concerns about the possible loss of canopy and shade, and could boost carbon sequestration.
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