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 |
| Victor Xu | Toronto G | Western B | 69 | -5 |
| Matthew Vidal | Northwestern D | Notre Dame B | 69 | -5 |
| Delia Cropper | Oxford A | Warwick A | 69 | 10 |
| 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 |
| Matthew Westley | Purdue A | Illinois B | 79 | 10 |
| Alexander Clarke | Yale | Brown | 79 | 10 |
| Dash Rumble | Bowdoin A | Harvard A | 79 | 10 |
| Albert Nyang | LSE | Birmingham | 79 | 10 |
| Julian Sung | Oxford C | Cambridge C | 79 | -5 |
| Braxton Davis | Missouri A | Georgia Tech A | 81 | 10 |
| Andrew Wang | Illinois A | Illinois C | 85 | 10 |
| Adil Haider | McMaster A | Guelph | 86 | 10 |
| Taylor Smallacombe | VCU | South Carolina A | 86 | -5 |
| Jacob Price | Cambridge B | Manchester | 86 | 10 |
| Amir Dolansky | Toronto E | Simon Fraser | 98 | 10 |
| Ian Theysmeyer | Queen's | Toronto B | 98 | -5 |
| Sumukh Murthy | UCSD A | UCLA B | 101 | -5 |
| Orion Keller | Virginia Tech A | Virginia | 101 | 10 |
| George Matsumura | Washington A | Claremont | 101 | 10 |
| Joseph Collins | Imperial B | Durham | 101 | 10 |
| Andrei Hui | Cambridge A | Imperial A | 102 | -5 |
| Trenton Burgess | Indiana A | Northwestern B | 105 | -5 |
| Caleb Ott | Waterloo A | McGill A | 106 | 10 |
| Ted Warner | Bristol | Edinburgh A | 106 | 10 |
| Katherine Mack | UC Irvine | UCSD C | 107 | 10 |
| Dawson Teu | Waterloo B | Toronto F | 108 | 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 |
| 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 |
| Joyann Hua | UBC B | Ottawa | 114 | 10 |
| Stephen Walsh | Northwestern B | Indiana A | 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 |
| Russell Nip | UBC A | McGill B | 121 | -5 |
| Alden Thompson | Carleton University | Toronto Metropolitan | 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 |
| Kerry Xu | UCSD B | UCLA A | 128 | 10 |
| Andrew Nucci | UCLA B | UCSD A | 128 | 0 |
| Ishan Joshi | Toronto Metropolitan | Carleton University | 128 | 0 |
| Yash Modi | Western B | Toronto G | 128 | 10 |
| Luke Sloan | McGill B | UBC A | 128 | 10 |
| Jason Zhang | Toronto B | Queen's | 128 | 10 |
| Joseph Cole | North Carolina A | Liberty C | 128 | 0 |
| Trey Lewis | South Carolina A | VCU | 128 | 0 |
| Johanna Bryant | Liberty B | NC State B | 128 | 10 |
| 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 |