Friday, March 15, 2019

The Most Amazing Thing About Trees

There is a limit to the height at which water can be sucked up a tube.  It is ten meters.  A perfect vacuum will form in the straw and the water will start to boil spontaneously.

Less than 1% of water sucked up a tree is used in photosynthetic reactions.  5% is used to make new cells.

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