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Why do carnations go to sleep in the city?

Published: 2024-11-22 Author: mysheen
Last Updated: 2024/11/22, In 1908, a florist from Chicago in the State of Wu went to consult a botanist. He said, "there are many beautiful carnation flowers in my country. They bloom brightly there, but when I get to the city, I get sleepy." Botanists believe that it may be because the air composition in the city is different from that in the countryside. In order to prove his idea, he took all kinds of gases and put them in the glass cover, and then put the flowering carnation inside, only to find out. As long as the cover contains a few millionths of ethylene gas, the blooming carnation will wither down.

In 1908, a florist in Chicago, Wu, consulted a botanist. He said: "I have many beautiful pink flowers in the countryside, where they bloom very brightly, but in the city, they have developed sleep sickness." Botanists think it may be because the composition of the air in cities is different from that in the countryside. To prove his idea, he took a variety of gases in the glass cover, and then put the flowering pink inside, the results found. As long as the hood contains a few parts per million of ethylene gas, the blooming pink bamboo flowers will wither. It turned out that in the ship carrying the flowers, there was a leak of lighting gas. At the time, another physiologist knew about this, he put frogs in glass bottles, slowly added ethylene to do experiments, when ethylene added to four-fifths of the bottle, the frog finally fell asleep on the ground, but removed the frog, after a few minutes, it woke up. He then did numerous experiments on various animals, and ethylene made them sleep temporarily. Ethylene has since become an anesthetic used by surgeons to ease the pain of patients during surgery.

 
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