#FediHelp #Science
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We are discussing on an incredible issue: how can air go inside bell peppers?
If someone has a scientific solution please tell us!
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@GustavinoBevilacqua @sans_serif_girl @materialgirl
(I suggest you add something like "boost welcome")
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@GustavinoBevilacqua @jones @sans_serif_girl @materialgirl
My guess is the same way air goes into an egg. -
@GustavinoBevilacqua @jones @sans_serif_girl @materialgirl
There was a previous discussion on reddit:
https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/3cv9vl/what_is_the_air_inside_a_bell_pepper_composed_of/ -
@jones @GustavinoBevilacqua @sans_serif_girl @materialgirl now I’m curious….
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@GustavinoBevilacqua @jones @sans_serif_girl @materialgirl
Same way air comes out of a leaf, would be my guess.
Or indeed, the same way gases leave the body through the lungs or intestine.
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@GustavinoBevilacqua @jones @sans_serif_girl @materialgirl
My first thought is that many membranes are permeable to gases. Our skin is kind of remarkable in what it *doesn't* let through. Other species can have gases diffuse through their skin.
I'm not a biologist, but I think that's part of why amphibians need to be wet, isn't it?
It could be very slow, but bell peppers don't expand very fast.
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@GustavinoBevilacqua @jones @sans_serif_girl @materialgirl From gasses dissolved in water?
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@DunPiteog @GustavinoBevilacqua @jones @sans_serif_girl what there's air inside eggs?
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@GustavinoBevilacqua @jones @sans_serif_girl @materialgirl
I would guess that stomata are involved either locally or non-locally. In the second case gasses might travel through spongy tissues in the pepper "stem". Either way I would assume the gasses are not forcefully pumped into the pepper, but rather the inner cell pressure expands the pepper, while the insides give way to the gas. -
@jonquark @GustavinoBevilacqua @jones @sans_serif_girl this is a very good thread, I'll definitely try to squeeze one under water to see if there are small holes near the stem... We're getting somewhere!
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@materialgirl @GustavinoBevilacqua @jones @sans_serif_girl yep: chicks breath air.
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@DunPiteog @materialgirl @jones @sans_serif_girl
But they don't fart…
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@DunPiteog @materialgirl @GustavinoBevilacqua @sans_serif_girl
also: cows don't always produce milk: they only produce it when they are pregnant; it seems to me it's something i had never realized before @kenobit told me :) -
@GustavinoBevilacqua @materialgirl @jones @sans_serif_girl not entirely sure about that. They don't feed and they have not gut microbiome, so my guess is that it's unlikely they fart.
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@jones @materialgirl @GustavinoBevilacqua @sans_serif_girl @kenobit
Not when they are pregnant, when they gave birth. -
@DunPiteog @materialgirl @GustavinoBevilacqua @sans_serif_girl @kenobit
Doesn't they start producing it even before birth? -
@jones @materialgirl @GustavinoBevilacqua @sans_serif_girl @kenobit why would they? Who would drink their milk?Mammals produce milk after the delivery.
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@DunPiteog @materialgirl @GustavinoBevilacqua @sans_serif_girl @kenobit
Well i seem to remember that when women are pregnant their breast grows... i don't know whether it is already producing milk, or just getting ready to do it, and it may be a myth, though. -
@jones @materialgirl @GustavinoBevilacqua @sans_serif_girl @kenobit the glands grow the milk will be produced later.
It takes some time to have the body prepared to feed someone.
