--photosynthasis--

the skinny--

  trees send water to their leafs, via the "water veins" of the tree, from the root...the veins in the roots( "water canals"), hydrate the "solar fields"(areas between the veins of the leafs), so the suns rays will dehydrate the moist chlorophyll there, release "o2", and absorb the "c" from "co2"( chlorophyll is "ch2o")...

    so,  "c" is pulled from the air, around the leaf, leaving "o2", after "h2o" evaporates, and releases "o2", leaving "ch"..."ch" is then taken into the tree, to make more tree, thus, a tree's trunk, is composed of carbon, and hydrogen--


"02" production--

   i suggest that a tree produces o2, by removing the "c" in carbon dioxide( "co2"), from the outside air, and releasing the "o2", from "h2o", via evaporation, on the surface of the leaf, which is engorged with chlorophyll( "ch2o"...chlorophyll, before evaporation)...meaning, the "c"( carbon), in chlorophyll( "cho2"), absorbs "co2"...since carbon alone does this...after the "o2" from "h2o", is evaporated from it...leaving "ch2o", since the leaf still has some moisture, yet the leaf has lost some, in the convection/evaporation process, of chlorophyll...basically, i suggest that carbon tends to move, and bond, to a like substance...another carbon molecule...and "co2" has a carbon molecule in it, so, "c" bonds to the "c", in "ch2o"( chlorophyll), and it releases the "02", in "ch2o"...but not all of it...and i believe this is the reason why, wood is mostly comprised of "h"( hydrogen), and "c"( carbon), in the tree's trunk, and branches...


summary--

    the way i feel a tree produces "o2", is that "c" is removed( pulled), from the air, via absorbing "co2"), to make "ch", after the sun evaporates "h2o", from "ch2o", thus separating the "o2" from "h2o"...and the "02" from "co2"

   --a tree makes "o2" two ways, and they look good doing it--


best wishes, john kruschke--

  (cs)