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Why Are Leaves Green? Part 1

2013-03-15

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Chlorophyll is great at absorbing reds and blues, but if it were really awesome, wouldn’t it absorb all colors of light, green included, giving us a world full of black moss and black grass and everblack trees?

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Created by Henry Reich, with Alex Reich, Peter Reich, Rose Eveleth, Emily Elert, and John Guittar.

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