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 |
| Delia Cropper | Oxford A | Warwick A | 69 | 10 |
| Matthew Vidal | Northwestern D | Notre Dame 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 |
| Matthew Westley | Purdue A | Illinois B | 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 |
| Braxton Davis | Missouri A | Georgia Tech A | 81 | 10 |
| Andrew Wang | Illinois A | Illinois C | 85 | 10 |
| Adil Haider | McMaster A | Guelph | 86 | 10 |
| Jacob Price | Cambridge B | Manchester | 86 | 10 |
| Taylor Smallacombe | VCU | South Carolina A | 86 | -5 |
| Ian Theysmeyer | Queen's | Toronto B | 98 | -5 |
| Amir Dolansky | Toronto E | Simon Fraser | 98 | 10 |
| Sumukh Murthy | UCSD A | UCLA B | 101 | -5 |
| George Matsumura | Washington A | Claremont | 101 | 10 |
| Joseph Collins | Imperial B | Durham | 101 | 10 |
| Orion Keller | Virginia Tech A | Virginia | 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 |
| Paige Crawley | Oxford B | Southampton B | 108 | 10 |
| Sasha Tripathi | Chicago C | Chicago A | 108 | -5 |
| Eric Lipsutz | Chicago E | Indiana 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 |
| Hiten Umarnani | Imperial C | Cardiff | 120 | -5 |
| Freddie Lancett | Cardiff | Imperial C | 120 | 10 |
| William Houston | Chicago B | Chicago D | 120 | 10 |
| David Nickel | Purdue B | Northwestern 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 |
| 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 |
| Ted Harrison | Edinburgh B | Southampton A | 128 | 0 |
| Kerry Xu | UCSD B | UCLA A | 128 | 10 |
| Andrew Nucci | UCLA B | UCSD A | 128 | 0 |
| 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 |
| 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 |