transpiration
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As the air becomes hotter, it becomes easier for plants to lose water to transpiration, especially because photosynthesis occurs during daylight hours when temperatures are highest.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 20, 2024
As carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere increase, plants may need to open their stomata less frequently, leading to decreased transpiration and preserving more groundwater.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 20, 2024
Scientists have a variety of methods to estimate the amount of water ascending from the Earth's surface to the atmosphere due to evaporation and transpiration through plant leaves.
From Science Daily • Mar. 25, 2024
As one plant loses moisture through its leaves via transpiration, the neighboring plants benefit.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 17, 2024
In the years 1846-1849 Graham resumed this inquiry; he now distinguished between diffusion, or the passage of gases through porous plates, and transpiration, or the passage of gases through capillary tubes.
From Heroes of Science Chemists by Muir, M. M. Pattison (Matthew Moncrieff Pattison)
Vocabulary lists containing transpiration
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