carbon fixation

British  

noun

1. the process by which plants assimilate carbon from carbon dioxide in the atmosphere to form metabolically active compounds

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carbon fixation Scientific  

1. The process in plants and algae by which atmospheric carbon dioxide is converted into organic carbon compounds, such as carbohydrates, usually by photosynthesis.

2. See more at carbon cycle

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Example Sentences

"There was a discrepancy between what people would measure when they went out on a ship to measure carbon fixation and what was understood to be the energy sources for microbes," Santoro said.

From Science Daily • Dec. 10, 2025

Notably, approximately one-third of global carbon fixation is estimated to occur within algal pyrenoids.

From Science Daily • Mar. 1, 2024

Most ecosystems on Earth are powered from the base up by sunlight, which drives carbon fixation through photosynthesis.

From Scientific American • Feb. 3, 2015

Alternative mechanisms of carbon fixation have evolved in hot, arid climates.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015

This process of capturing inorganic carbon and converting it to organic sugar molecules is known as carbon fixation.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015