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Why aren't plants black?

Season 2 Episode 15

Why are plants green? Is there a reason plants evolved to be green, globally? What does it have to do with the color of the sunlight coming down through our atmosphere?

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9:36
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5:00
When you look through a straw in water something strange happens as you move it up & down.
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