Trees Come Out Of The Air
Nature's Alchemy: Trees, Sunlight, and the Dance of Carbon
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The substance of the tree is carbon
The material that makes up trees is primarily carbon.
Where did that come from?
Questioning the origin of carbon present in trees.
It comes from the air
Carbon in trees originates from the air.
It's carbon dioxide from the air
Specifically, it's carbon dioxide from the air.
People look at trees and they think
Observing how people commonly perceive tree growth, assuming it's from the ground.
It comes out of the ground
Common misconception that plants grow solely from the ground.
That plants grow out of the ground
Belief that plants derive their substance from the ground.
But if you ask
Posing a question regarding the true source of the substance.
Where the substance comes from?
Continuing the inquiry into the origin of the substance present in trees.
You find out, where did it come from?
Further emphasis on investigating the origin of tree substance.
Trees come out of the air?
Challenging the notion that trees exclusively emerge from the ground.
They surely come out of the ground
Counterpoint to the common belief by stating that trees come from the air.
No, they come out of the air
Reiterating that trees originate from the air.
No, they come out of the air
-The carbon dioxide in the air goes into
Describing the process: carbon dioxide from the air enters the tree.
The tree and it changes it
When inside the tree, carbon dioxide undergoes changes.
Kicking out the oxygen
The tree absorbs oxygen and releases it.
And then pushing the oxygen
Specifically, pushing away oxygen from carbon.
Away from the carbon
Separating oxygen from the carbon substance.
And leaving the carbon substance with water
Resulting in the carbon substance combined with water.
Water comes out of the ground
Highlighting the misconception that water solely comes from the ground.
Only it came out of the air, didn't it?
Correcting the notion that water only originates from the ground, explaining its origin from the air.
Came down from the sky so most of it
Explaining that water primarily comes from the sky as rain.
Almost all of the tree is out of the ground
Most of the tree's composition is from the air.
I'm sorry, it's out of the air!
Reiteration emphasizing that trees are predominantly formed from elements in the air.
Now, of course I told you the oxygen
Clarifying the tight connection between oxygen and carbon.
And carbon stick together very tight
Reflecting on the mystery of how trees effectively separate carbon dioxide.
How is it that the tree is so smart
Rhetorical question pondering the intelligence of trees in processing carbon dioxide.
To manage to take the carbon dioxide
Explaining the process of trees extracting carbon dioxide.
Which is the carbon oxygen nicely combined
-And undo that so easy?
-Ah, life life has some mysterious quirks
Highlighting the mysterious nature of life's processes.
No, the sun is shining
Observing the presence of sunlight during the carbon separation process.
And it's the sunlight that comes down and
Attributing the separation of oxygen from carbon to sunlight.
Locks this oxygen away from the carbon
Detailing how sunlight facilitates the separation of oxygen from carbon in plants.
So it takes sunlight to get the plant to work
Emphasizing the continuous role of sunlight in the process of separating oxygen and carbon.
And so the sun, all the time
-Is doing the work of separating the
-Oxygen away from the carbon, the oxygen
Describing oxygen as an undesirable byproduct.
Is some kind of terrible byproduct
Detailing the components of the tree's substance after the separation process.
Which it spit's back into the air
-And leaving the carbon and
-Water and stuff to make the
-Substance of the tree
-And then when we take the
Discussing the usage of the tree's substance in a fireplace.
Substance in the tree
-And stick it in the fireplace
Describing the tree's substance and oxygen as products of burning the tree.
It is the only oxygen made by these trees
-And all the carbon would much prefer
Highlighting carbon's preference to combine with oxygen.
To be close together again
Describing the process of burning wood and the subsequent recombination of carbon and oxygen.
And once you've let the heat
-To get it started
-It continues and makes an awful lot of
Describing the energetic activity occurring during the recombination of carbon and oxygen.
Activity while it's going back together again
-And all this nice light and
-Everything comes out and everything
-Is being undone, you're going back
-To carbon and oxygen, back to carbon dioxide
-And the light and the heat
Associating the released light and heat during burning with the energy originally obtained from the sun.
That's coming out that's the
-Light and heat of the sun that went in
-The sun that went in
-So it's sort of stored sun that's coming
Comparing the released energy from burning a log to stored sunlight.
Out when you burn a log
-So it's sort of stored sun that's coming
Repeating the analogy of stored sunlight being released when burning a log.
Out when you burn a log
-So it's sort of stored sun that's coming out
-When you burn a log
-So it's sort of stored sun that's coming out
-When you burn a log
-So it's sort of stored sun that's coming out
-When you burn a log
-So it's sort of stored sun that's coming out
-When you burn a log
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