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Excerpt from The Chemical Elements
The timber which is used in making houses, furniture, ships, and many other things that enter into our daily lives, is one product of those complicated changes that are brought about by the growing tree in the food it Obtains from the air by its leaves and from the soil by its roots. There are plants which change the substances they absorb by their roots and leaves into sugar, and when these plants are crushed and the liquid'
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