Is air renewable or nonrenewable?
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yes. air is renewable. when we breathe in oxygen we exhale carbon dioxide which isn't safe to breath. everything from small plants to large trees breathe in our carbon dioxide and convert it into oxygen we oxygen. the air we breathe can actually be used as a scource of fuel for our cars also. the only emission would be clean air.
Nothing Breathes out more than it takes in. Living things sort of recycle it along with precipitation that somewhat washes it. The air we have is what we have but the planet hasn't always had air and chemical reactions can produce gas. For all practicality the atmosphere is not renewable. Major step that would need to be accomplished before terraforming Mars.
Our bodily warmth is maintained by the body’s metabolism in the oxidizing of nutrients. This process also provides energy for brain power, muscular energy, and so forth. That is one reason why the red blood corpuscles, the blood’s oxygen carriers, are so vital and why the brain cells, which use up about one fourth of the body’s total oxygen intake, need this element in constant supply. So active is oxygen that if it were not diluted with other gases in the atmosphere, fires would start at a mere spark and virtually everything would be in danger of being burned up. Besides, no human would live very long breathing only pure oxygen.
For our very existence and safety the Creator diluted the atmosphere with nitrogen, which constitutes 78 percent of the ‘relatively constant’ gases making up the atmosphere. So we have just enough oxygen, and it is not too concentrated. In our atmospheric “ocean,” nitrogen and oxygen together make up as much as 99 percent of these relatively constant gases. Nitrogen, though, is more than a mere dilutant. It serves other purposes. During a thunderstorm, lightning allows nitrogen to combine with other elements. Then rain carries the resultant compounds to the earth for fertilizer. It is an essential element for many plants.
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That is recyclable not renewable.