Sentence examples for primary sink for from inspiring English sources

Sequestration of organic matter by peat accumulation constitutes a primary sink for carbon in the global carbon cycle.

As the primary sink for sediment delivery, AYRM received approximately 68% of sediment delivery during the study period and sedimentation was mainly occurred in the shallower area where water depth was less than 10 m.

The results of the solid phase analyses, the formation of disordered mackinawite (Fe1+xS) on piezometer tubing, and thermodynamic calculations indicate that the precipitation of poorly crystalline Fe monosulfides is the primary sink for Fe and S in the barrier.

As skeletal muscles are the primary sink for insulin-stimulated glucose disposal, the development of muscular insulin resistance may lead to high circulating glucose retention and glucose intolerance.

Indoor dust is a primary sink for additive chemicals applied to consumer products, and many of the reported environmental obesogens are found abundantly in house dust.

The increased heparin-releasable LPL activity described for CA-hearts restored the relative proportions of intralipid oxidised and deposited as tissue lipids to levels similar to oleate implying that uptake (and hence delivery to the cardiomyocyte) is the rate-limiting step and that oxidative phosphorylation the primary sink for lipids.

To investigate the role that the extant microbial community plays in maintaining HOOH concentrations at the surface within the tolerable range for Prochlorococcus, we examined the effect that removal of this primary sink had on the local concentrations of HOOH.

For the materials balance, the defined environmental compartments for oil accumulation were sediments, water column, and the water surface, while the discharge from the tanks was presumed to be the primary sink.

While sunlight is the primary source of HOOH, the primary sink is the microflora [52], [53].

Unlike oxygen, which has one primary source, the red blood cells, and one primary sink, the mitochondria, NO has multiple sources and sinks, most of which have yet to be uncovered.

The primary sink organs were culms and ears (+4.8 ± 2.0 and +3.4 ± 0.2 ng g dry wt-1 d-1, respectively).