• Question: Do we know any other sources(apart from plants) which produce oxygen?

    Asked by jeevan to Arttu, Ceri on 24 Jun 2011.
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      Arttu Rajantie answered on 24 Jun 2011:

      It is easy to produce oxygen from water using electricity, but in nature I don’t think there are any important sources of oxygen other than plants. Therefore having free oxygen in the atmosphere is a good sign of life.

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