A while ago, I was discussing some stuff with a random person in this chat, and somehow our conversation drifted off to not trusting your sources. As an example, he told me not to beleive that the forests are our main source of air. He said that salt and Co2 (I think) create air when they meet. Since salt is running rampant in our seas, this, if it's true, could very well make trees obsolete as it were, in terms of us needing air from them. I'm only talking about air here, I know trees are important for a whole slurr of other reasons, but I'm only talking about air here, breatheable air.

 

So my question: Does this chemical reaction exist? Something like it? If so, would it be enough to keep us going without the rainforests and such?

hehe, CO2 and NaCl :P umm i highly doubt they will make breatheable air. there isnt any nitrogen, hydogen, oxygen, etc. so we certainly need those forests.

scratch the oxygen part, i forgot the 2 oxygens in CO2

they wouldn`t react at all.

 

the O2 comes from the sea by the action of tiny plant life Algae

and then a wale comes and eat them, lol.

"the O2 comes from the sea by the action of tiny plant life Algae :)"

 

It's odd how people usually think that rainforests produce about all of the world's oxygen. Of course, they do produce quite a bit, but big trees consume it quite a bit.

 

"and then a wale comes and eat them, lol."

 

I thought whales eat mackerels and the like mostly?

even killer wales eat only herring. Blue Whales eat krill and som other whales eat only plankton/

even killer wales eat only herring.

Not true.

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I take it he means oxygen, rather than air, seeing as air is more than 70% nitrogen?

More than half the plant mass on the planet is algae. It also performs the majority of the photosynthesis.

Ah, I get it now. I thought what he was saying was pretty farfetched. Too bad I'll never be able to tell him..

Trees are very effective at locking up carbon though (deciduous trees in particular). Much moreso than algae.

Not true.

herring or seals.

 

Mackrel only live in the mediteranian and warm places where either no wales or wales that eat plankton live.

And as we all know, herring, seals and mackerel are the only chewy things these predators ever encounter.