Answer to Question #192782 in Biology for Luois

Question

(a)              The total concentration of dissolved inorganic carbon in a sample of sedimentary pore water is 5.576 mmol/kg. Isotopic analysis of this DIC yields a δ¹³C = -37‰ vs. PDB. It’s known that the pore water initially contained some CH₄ with δ¹³C = -84‰ vs. PDB, that the CH₄ has been converted quantitatively to CO₂, that pore waters in which no CH₄ was oxidized have δ¹³C = -12‰ vs. PDB, and that the pore water in question has neither lost nor gained DIC except by the oxidation of CH₄. What were the initial concentrations of dissolved inorganic carbon and CH₄ in the pore water? 

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