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When humans burn fossil fuels, most of the the carbon quickly enters the atmosphere as carbon dioxide in the atmosphere in the process called

•transpiration
•combustion
•decomposition
•photosynthesis ​

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transpiration i think
User Wax Cage
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Pretty sure it’s combustion. The typical equation looks like this:

Any amount of Hydrocarbons (CH4 and C2H6 and are examples of them) plus Oxygen gas (O2) will ALWAYS yield Carbon Dioxide gas and Steam
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