Sore throat is a symptom, not a disease. In each case, there was a different cause that dictated a different treatment. The scratchy throat probably was a mechanical problem caused by dry, heated winter air and aggravated by my friend's tendency to breathe through her mouth when she sleeps.
Biogeochemistry includes the history of the great carbon reservoirs in the crust of the Earth, like limestone rocks and the coal deposits, as well as the distribution of nitrate and phosphate in the ocean.
Examples of reservoirs are the ocean, the atmosphere, the biosphere, the soil carbon, the carbonate sediments, and the organic carbon sediments.. The fluxes between them describe the rate at which atoms move from one reservoir into another.