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Does soil give off oxygen

Updated: 12/27/2023
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8y ago

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NO!!!

However, green plant life growing out of the soil does.

A green leaf plant takes in carbon dioxide. Under the process of photosynthesis ( uv/sun light is needed), the plant breaks down the carbon dioxide, into its component elements.

The carbon component remains in the plant as biomass. The oxygen component is released back intoi the atmosphere. This maintains the oxygen level in the atmosphere, at about 20%.

It is a natural process that humans neither hear, see nor smell, so short of scientific invesigation we cannot tell how fast it procedes. However, it must go on at a fast rate in order to remove CO2 from the atmosphere and replace it with oxygen.

In chemistry/biochemistry/geochemistry ,there are three cycles going on all the time. they are the nitrogen cycle, oxygen cycle and carbon cycle. I'll leave you to investigate these cycles.

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Only if there are plants growing in the soil.

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