| Show carbott carbon dioxide carbon dioxide the stuff of which all vegetation Is made Is held in the atmosphere remove it and there would be no trees and grass and consequently no higher animal life the same can be said of the oxygen we breathe and of the nitrogen by which it ls Is diluted so that we may not be consumed by a process of nameless combustion and of the comparatively rare gas hydrogen life depends not only on an atmosphere but on a very complex atmosphere of the right chemical composition and physical state |