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Breathe Easy. There’s an oil for that!
We know that through the process of photosynthesis, plants use
the energy from sunlight to convert carbon dioxide and water into
sugar and oxygen. The plant uses the sugar for food, and it releas-
es the oxygen into the atmosphere—good for us, right!?
This process take space in the leaves of they’re openings that allow outside air
the plant. “Look closely at…any leaf in. I think of them more like lungs,
(or, for that matter, the surface of any often with squeezable openings. That’s
green plant, even a blade of grass) with where the carbon dioxide gets in and the
a magnifying glass. You’ll find little oxygen slips out.” ~Robert Krulwish, The
breathing tubes called stomata. That’s Earth Has Lungs. Watch Them Breathe,
“mouth” in Greek, because, like mouths, National Geographic, March 2016.
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