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Newton Figured Out How Tree Sap Rises

Feb 9, 2015 · 2 min
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Buried in one of Isaac Newton's college notebooks is a page on which he fairly accurately theorizes on the process of transpiration in plants, two centuries before the concept was elucidated. Karen Hopkin reports    

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