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Question
How is oxygen naturally renewed in air ?
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Solution
All living beings use atmospheric oxygen in breathing and burning of fuels and in the formation of oxides of nitrogen. Yet amount of oxygen in the air remains more or less constant. This is because green plants return oxygen to the atmosphere by the process of photosynthesis.
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