Cut flowers and potted plants suck the oxygen from sickrooms!?

No, Plants use the CO2 that humans breathe out, plus sunlight, to make O2. That's what they "breathe out." So they contribute to oxygen in sickrooms. Which is nice, right?

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Reply:Go back to school. Plants take in Carbon Dioxide and emit Oxygen. So the plants will not suck all the oxygen from the room and sufficate them.
Reply:nope. Plants live on CO2. They exhale oxygen.
Reply:you allready asked this question
Reply:No. Where did you hear that?


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Reply:plants clean the air there good 2 have in ur house.
Reply:I'd always learned that Potted plants give off oxygen, not steal it.books authors