Wednesday, December 12, 2007

Progress Toward Artificial Photosynthesis?

Link: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/03/070312152123.htm

Summary: This article is about the progress toward artificial photosynthesis using a special new type of metal-free catalyst: graphitic carbon nitride. The reason it's hard is become it takes a lot of energy to break down the Carbon bonds in CO2.




What is the chemical equation for photosynthesis? Carbon Dioxide + Water = Glucose + Oxygen

What organelles are involved in this process? chloroplasts

List three things you learned from this article in your own words. CO2 bonds are difficult to break, artificial photosynthesis is possible, their are few metals that can break co2 bonds

What impact would the absence of this process have on the biosphere? Without photosynthesis and in turn plants their would be no oxygen which would kill humans leaving the earth without carbon dioxide.

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