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Can succulent plants purify the air?

Published: 2024-11-22 Author: mysheen
Last Updated: 2024/11/22, Plants can protect against radiation, plants can purify the air. Now people's requirements for plants are no longer limited to beautifying the environment. Can such succulent plants purify the air? Let's see.

Can succulent plants purify the air?

The answer is no. Succulent plants are popular because they are small, cute and changeable in color, but some businesses often give them labels that can purify the air in order to attract attention, but there is no scientific basis for this. For air purification, we generally have two expectations, one is to absorb dust, and the other is to absorb harmful gases.

1, dust adsorption: succulent plants are very small, full calculation can not absorb much dust, and is not active adsorption, dust is free to fall up, flower friends also need to clean up dust, this air purification failure.

2. Absorb harmful gases: we all know that plant photosynthesis is simply the biochemical process of converting carbon dioxide and water into energy-storing organic compounds and releasing oxygen under the irradiation of visible light.

Generally speaking, most of our common harmful gases are formaldehyde and so on. in fact, no kind of plant takes the initiative to absorb some harmful gas into energy-converted organic matter or oxygen.

At this time, some flower friends said, then why do people say that green pineapple and the like can absorb harmful gases? In fact, this is not the active absorption of plants, but because of the large leaves, large surface area, so passive absorption. And succulent plant leaves are mostly relatively small, do not have such a role, it is not easy to feed, which flower friend is willing to let it bear the heavy task of risking death and inhaling harmful gases.

At this point, flower friends should be able to understand that succulent plants can not purify the air, which is a bit absolute, or can be understood as negligible. Window ventilation is far more reliable than a plant to purify the air, and the general small potted plant is more ornamental.

So for those who want to raise a pot of succulent plants to purify the air, it is better to buy an air purifier. But although succulent plants do not purify the air or absorb radiation, their cute manner is still liked by many people.

 
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