The oceans are the Earth's largest carbon reservoirs. What property of water allows the oceans' water to store carbon dioxide ?

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Carbonic acid releases hydrogen ions, which combine with carbonate in seawater to form bicarbonate, a form of carbon that doesn't escape the ocean easily. As we burn fossil fuels and atmospheric carbon dioxide levels go up, the ocean absorbs more carbon dioxide to stay in balance.Carbon dioxide is naturally stored in the ocean through chemical processes, either as a dissolved gas or, over a longer time scale, as carbonate sediments on the seafloor. In fact, more than 70 percent of current CO2 emissions will eventually wind-up in the ocean.

The property of water that allows the Oceans' water to store carbon dioxide is :    Oceans' Temperature and salinity

The Ocean is one of the carbon sinks where carbon is stored in nature, in the form of a dissolved gas or  stored over a long time in the form of carbonate sediments.

The ocean is the largest carbon reservoir because the ocean readily absorbs  carbon released into the atmosphere from the burning of fossil fuels through several chemical process. and this is due to its salinity and temperature .

Hence we can conclude that The property that allows Oceans' water to store carbon dioxide is the Oceans' Salinity and temperature.

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