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What is the difference between carbon dioxide and oxygen?

Asked by Babalua, Last updated: Apr 07, 2024

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Kaesha

Kaesha

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Answered Feb 25, 2020

Plants breathe carbon dioxide, and we breathe oxygen. I think this is the big difference between the 2.

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n_m_o

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Answered May 09, 2017

Carbon dioxide contains one carbon atom and two oxygen atoms while oxygen contains two oxygen atoms.
carbon atoms are used up by plants while animals breathe in oxygen.
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John Adney

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Answered Mar 23, 2017

Oxygen is the air released from the trees then mixed with the thin air and it is available in the atmosphere

carbon dioxide is the waste air exhaled by particular living organisms
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CynthiaVugutsa

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Answered Dec 11, 2016

The difference is in the carbon atom
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