The TOC (total organic carbon) is typically determined as the difference between total organic carbon and the carbonate carbon concentration.

The greater part of dissolved mineral carbon is stored in the oceans.

This is known as mineralisation, which is the ideal purification process, as all the organic carbon is transformed into mineral carbon.

They are carried out by so-called autotrophic bacteria because they use mineral carbon (CO2 or HCO3-) as a carbon source for the synthesis of new bacteria.

The surface ocean currently contains mineral carbon at 24 ppm by mass [9] (24 g per tonne of water).

Carbon-14 is integrated in the carbon cycle, which is very complex due to the presence of inorganic and organic carbon, in solid, liquid or gaseous forms (Figure 3).

The surface ocean currently contains mineral carbon at 24 ppm by mass [9] 24 g per tonne of water.

These trees have the ability to transform the carbon present in the atmosphere into mineral carbon, namely limestone, which will be sedimented permanently in the soil by the microbiota.