Fermentation is a metabolic process which takes place in the cotyledon, part of the bean's embryo, where naturally occurring microbes start converting sugar molecules into ethanol, or ethyl alcohol, and carbon dioxide. ... The bacteria oxidizes the ethanol to acetic acid and then to carbon dioxide and water. ...

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One theory on the way that the red tides work is the phytoplankton is photosynthetic and need carbon dioxide for survival. They take the carbon dioxide and absorb sunlight, and then release oxygen gas into the water. ...

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Russia is planning on drilling a 35 million year old lake in the middle of the Antarctica. This lake, Lake Vostok, is 670 meters deep or roughly 2198 feet deep and each liter or water contains approximately 2.5 liters of compressed air (Space Daily, Aug. 2003), now why is this, a good idea? This l...

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