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Oxygen: An Overall Biological View

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Oxygen and Living Processes

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It seems that the oxygen we are breathing today was synthesized in massive stars. When these stars exploded as supernovas, the oxygen was released into the interstellar clouds. Our sun and solar system were born from such a cloud, containing the previously synthesized oxygen (Herbig, 1981).

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Gilbert, D.L. (1981). Oxygen: An Overall Biological View. In: Gilbert, D.L. (eds) Oxygen and Living Processes. Topics in Environmental Physiology and Medicine. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-5890-2_18

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