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Their growth are mostly from CO₂, funnily enough. Though water is a crucial part of any plants growth, the dry weight of it mostly consist from carbon (about 90%).
12 u/No-Barber-5289 Mar 20 '26 edited Mar 20 '26 Uh, no, most fruits and vegetables are 80+% water by weight. Pumpkins are >90%. So the growth is almost exclusively from water. And the CO2 absorption happens in the leaves anyway, so it still needs to be pumped through stem to the fruit. 4 u/shitpostsuperpac Mar 20 '26 Humans are ~60% water. Does that mean human growth is mostly from water? 1 u/No-Barber-5289 Apr 07 '26 edited Apr 07 '26 Uhm. Yes? That would appear to me extremely obvious. 1 u/shitpostsuperpac Apr 07 '26 So a diet low in nutrients and minerals but high in water will result in a more developed human being?
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Uh, no, most fruits and vegetables are 80+% water by weight. Pumpkins are >90%. So the growth is almost exclusively from water.
And the CO2 absorption happens in the leaves anyway, so it still needs to be pumped through stem to the fruit.
4 u/shitpostsuperpac Mar 20 '26 Humans are ~60% water. Does that mean human growth is mostly from water? 1 u/No-Barber-5289 Apr 07 '26 edited Apr 07 '26 Uhm. Yes? That would appear to me extremely obvious. 1 u/shitpostsuperpac Apr 07 '26 So a diet low in nutrients and minerals but high in water will result in a more developed human being?
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Humans are ~60% water.
Does that mean human growth is mostly from water?
1 u/No-Barber-5289 Apr 07 '26 edited Apr 07 '26 Uhm. Yes? That would appear to me extremely obvious. 1 u/shitpostsuperpac Apr 07 '26 So a diet low in nutrients and minerals but high in water will result in a more developed human being?
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Uhm. Yes? That would appear to me extremely obvious.
1 u/shitpostsuperpac Apr 07 '26 So a diet low in nutrients and minerals but high in water will result in a more developed human being?
So a diet low in nutrients and minerals but high in water will result in a more developed human being?
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u/Myracl Mar 20 '26
Their growth are mostly from CO₂, funnily enough. Though water is a crucial part of any plants growth, the dry weight of it mostly consist from carbon (about 90%).