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Green plants take water, carbon dioxide (from the air) and energy (from light), transform them with the help of chlorophyll into carbohydrates and free oxygen. The chemical form for this reaction...
...what goes in and what comes out. The mystery is how the transmutation is achieved. The classic explanation, commonly accepted until recently, was proposed in 1870 by Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Adolf von Baeyer, and amplified by Nobel Prizeman Richard Willstütter of Munich: Under the influence of chlorophyll, carbon dioxide and water combine to form formaldehyde (CH 2 O) and free oxygen. Then, under the influence of light, six formaldehyde molecules somehow assemble into one glucose molecule...
...There was no way of telling them apart. So Ruben obtained heavy oxygen-a rare isotope which has a mass of 18 instead of the normal atomic weight of 16-and made from it heavy-oxygen water. This was fed to a green plant, together with ordinary, light-oxygen carbon dioxide. As photosynthesis proceeded, the scientists caught the freed oxygen, found it was the heavy variety. Next they fed the plant light-oxygen water and heavy-oxygen carbon dioxide. All the oxygen thus freed was light. So it was proved that all the free oxygen comes directly from the water...
...Most surprising radio-botanical find: chlorophyll in green plants continues to assimilate and reduce carbon dioxide from the air on a "small but measurable" scale, even in complete absence of light. This lightless "photosynthesis" demands that biochemists radically revise their theories about what is the most important chemical reaction on earth...
...willing but inept stooge, Quisling's blurred carbon copy of the Nazi Party, the Nasjonal Samling has done its best to rule Norway by typical steel-and-sugar Nazi methods: the threat of terrorism, the promise that Norway would be ruled by Norwegians. Both have failed. Party rallies have led to more riots than enthusiasm, and a running undercurrent of sabotage, noncooperation, attacks on Nazis and spying by free-minded Norwegians has done much to undermine the morale of German troops stationed there...