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Experiments Upon Vegetables, Discovering Their Great Power of Purifying the Common Air in Sunshine, and of Injuring It in the Shade and at Night

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    …chemical effects of plant physiology, Experiments upon Vegetables, Discovering Their Great Power of Purifying the Common Air in Sunshine, and of Injuring It in the Shade and at Night. The English chemist Joseph Priestley had already shown that plants restore to the air a property necessary to—but destroyed by—animal life.…

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