Most never appreciate that 95+% of the physical matter plants are comprised of comes from the CO2 gas during photosynthesis and not from physical minerals extracted by the roots from soil.

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Trees are mostly air, literally.

And when you burn them, you release the energy from the sunlight used during photosynthesis by turning it back into CO2 🤯

Yes.

Plants are magic in how they use radiation to turn a gas and liquid into a solid.

Richard Feynman has a nice way of explaining it