Up close and personal with a leaf in real-time oxygen production

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what was that about plants screaming when cut? :scream_cat:

we shall remember your sacrifice… :potted_plant:

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On the walk to my kids’ school, there’s a section of gutter that turns into a slow-moving tiny stream about 30 cm / 1 foot wide and 7 cm / 3 in deep after a rain. During the summer sunny / rainy days, some kind of mossy plant life grows under the water, and after a rainy morning you can see the mass of oxygen bubbles attached to the plant leaves in the afternoon.

edit: tyop

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That looks like an awfully thick section of leaf for a backlit microscope.

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A fun part of aquarium plants is you can see the oxygen bubbles form in the water. When I occasionally add CO2 to my tank, I watch as all the plants crank up the photosynthesis and streams of oxygen bubbles trail off.
(Normally oxygen production is slow enough that it dissolves into the water before visible air bubbles form and float to the surface)

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The solution to that is obvious: sequester it underground.

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