A mature oak tree weighs around 10,000 pounds. Where did all that mass come from? Not the soil. Not the water. Not the minerals. Almost the entire physical mass of a tree comes from an invisible gas floating in the atmosphere — the stuff you exhale. A 10,000-pound oak is, in the most literal sense,
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