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To: GummyIII; All

How about when plants grow? Light energy (Sun) gets transformed into mass (plant). Cool.


53 posted on 10/02/2005 12:59:45 AM PDT by AmericaUnited
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Actually, very little of the plant mass (actually an unmeasurably small amount) comes from direct conversion of solar energy to mass. Most of the increase in plant mass comes from the conversion of carbon dioxide and water into sugars which the plant uses for growth.


134 posted on 10/04/2005 11:34:34 AM PDT by stremba
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