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Do the percentages of gases in the atmosphere change?

Updated: 8/18/2019
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Yes, but usually slowly.

At one time there was no Oxygen in the atmosphere, (and quite a bit of methane)

and a little less than a billion years ago there was more than 25 % O2 (age of the giant insects ... with lots of plants on land.)

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