Dole effect

Dole effect

English

Etymology

Named after American chemist Malcolm Dole.

Noun

Dole effect (plural Dole effects)

  1. (climatology) An inequality observed in the ratio of the heavy isotope oxygen-18 to the lighter oxygen-16, measured in the atmosphere and seawater.

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