In 2014, Bin Chen et al. claimed that the primary reservoir of this element on Earth is the inner core. The downward flux of this element is plotted against depth on the Martin curve. The ratio of this element to nitrogen determines whether soil nitrogen undergoes immobilization or remineralization. Abundance of this element is regulated by negative feedback in which silicate weathering causes burial of this element in the seafloor, which also occurs as a result of the biological pump. Two fractions of this element notated DOM and POM are distinguished by particle size. Mangrove forests and tidal marshes are of interest in “blue” methods for sequestering this element. For 10 points, name this element whose biogeochemical cycling may involve fixation of its inorganic dioxide into organic matter. ■END■
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nick Machin | UCLA A | UCSD B | 19 | -5 |
| Ethen Sun | Toronto D | Brock | 63 | 10 |
| Matthew Vidal | Northwestern D | Notre Dame B | 69 | -5 |
| Delia Cropper | Oxford A | Warwick A | 69 | 10 |
| Victor Xu | Toronto G | Western B | 69 | -5 |
| Samuel Li | William and Mary | Virginia Tech B | 72 | -5 |
| Jonathan Huang | MIT | Brandeis B | 77 | -5 |
| Winston Zuo | UC Santa Barbara | Arizona State | 79 | 10 |
| Dash Rumble | Bowdoin A | Harvard A | 79 | 10 |
| Alexander Clarke | Yale | Brown | 79 | 10 |
| Albert Nyang | LSE | Birmingham | 79 | 10 |
| Julian Sung | Oxford C | Cambridge C | 79 | -5 |
| Matthew Westley | Purdue A | Illinois B | 79 | 10 |
| Braxton Davis | Missouri A | Georgia Tech A | 81 | 10 |
| Andrew Wang | Illinois A | Illinois C | 85 | 10 |
| Taylor Smallacombe | VCU | South Carolina A | 86 | -5 |
| Jacob Price | Cambridge B | Manchester | 86 | 10 |
| Adil Haider | McMaster A | Guelph | 86 | 10 |
| Ian Theysmeyer | Queen's | Toronto B | 98 | -5 |
| Amir Dolansky | Toronto E | Simon Fraser | 98 | 10 |
| Orion Keller | Virginia Tech A | Virginia | 101 | 10 |
| George Matsumura | Washington A | Claremont | 101 | 10 |
| Joseph Collins | Imperial B | Durham | 101 | 10 |
| Sumukh Murthy | UCSD A | UCLA B | 101 | -5 |
| Andrei Hui | Cambridge A | Imperial A | 102 | -5 |
| Trenton Burgess | Indiana A | Northwestern B | 105 | -5 |
| Ted Warner | Bristol | Edinburgh A | 106 | 10 |
| Caleb Ott | Waterloo A | McGill A | 106 | 10 |
| Katherine Mack | UC Irvine | UCSD C | 107 | 10 |
| Sasha Tripathi | Chicago C | Chicago A | 108 | -5 |
| Eric Lipsutz | Chicago E | Indiana B | 108 | 10 |
| Paige Crawley | Oxford B | Southampton B | 108 | 10 |
| Dawson Teu | Waterloo B | Toronto F | 108 | 10 |
| Katie Young | Liberty C | North Carolina A | 109 | -5 |
| Isaac Studley | Carleton College | Iowa State | 110 | 10 |
| Danny Fisher | Warwick B | City St. George's | 111 | 10 |
| Stephen Walsh | Northwestern B | Indiana A | 114 | 10 |
| Joyann Hua | UBC B | Ottawa | 114 | 10 |
| Krishna Girish | Montpellier | UCL | 116 | 10 |
| William Houston | Chicago B | Chicago D | 120 | 10 |
| David Nickel | Purdue B | Northwestern C | 120 | 10 |
| Hiten Umarnani | Imperial C | Cardiff | 120 | -5 |
| Freddie Lancett | Cardiff | Imperial C | 120 | 10 |
| Alden Thompson | Carleton University | Toronto Metropolitan | 121 | -5 |
| Russell Nip | UBC A | McGill B | 121 | -5 |
| Michael Wu | Southampton A | Edinburgh B | 122 | -5 |
| Christopher Bradley | Southern Connecticut State | Bowdoin B | 123 | 10 |
| Fionn O'Connor | South Carolina B | North Carolina B | 124 | 10 |
| Tok Shing Henry Wong | Cambridge C | Oxford C | 125 | 10 |
| Chloe Chow | Harvard B | Brandeis A | 127 | 10 |
| Johanna Bryant | Liberty B | NC State B | 128 | 10 |
| Joseph Cole | North Carolina A | Liberty C | 128 | 0 |
| Trey Lewis | South Carolina A | VCU | 128 | 0 |
| Emily Kadolph | Virginia Tech B | William and Mary | 128 | 10 |
| Ezra Santos | Chicago A | Chicago C | 128 | 0 |
| Noah McRedmond | Notre Dame B | Northwestern D | 128 | 10 |
| Nathaniel Martin | Brandeis B | MIT | 128 | 0 |
| Charlie Lowman | Imperial A | Cambridge A | 128 | 10 |
| Ted Harrison | Edinburgh B | Southampton A | 128 | 0 |
| Kerry Xu | UCSD B | UCLA A | 128 | 10 |
| Andrew Nucci | UCLA B | UCSD A | 128 | 0 |
| Ishan Joshi | Toronto Metropolitan | Carleton University | 128 | 0 |
| Jason Zhang | Toronto B | Queen's | 128 | 10 |
| Luke Sloan | McGill B | UBC A | 128 | 10 |
| Yash Modi | Western B | Toronto G | 128 | 10 |