• Question: How much carbon dioxide is in a volcano?

    Asked by anon-192790 on 14 Nov 2018.
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      anon answered on 14 Nov 2018:


      A huge amount. The Internet says about 0.3 billion tonnes a year (about 1% of human CO2 emissions). A really big eruption should release even more CO2 but it depends on the chemistry of the rocks.

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