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Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

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Photosynthesis

In an alkaline environment, you're going to have a lot of people might remember doing neutralization reactions. Even in your mouth, and es wizzing reaction going on in your mouth. So hydrogen's reactive in alkaline solution. And so you've got protons reacting with hydro oxide, irons with this unstoppable reaction. If you put e, if you put the hydrogen in an acidic environment and try and do the same thing, well now you're you're making acid inside an acid environment. Itits not it's much hard work. It's its spontaneous chemistry. It's aboutis unstoppable.

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