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The oxygen produced by houseplants is trivial.
It's unlikely that a houseplant would produce enough oxygen to significantly increase the amount of available oxygen in a house.However, it's possible that houseplants could, in some situations, provide a significant (significant meaning measurable, not necessarily useful) decrease in carbon dioxide concentrations in a house.Imagine a small airtight room with a volume of 27m3. At atmospheric pressure and it would contain roughly 20% oxygen (5400 L O2 = 240 moles of O2 = 7700 g of O2). If the air inside were 400 ppm CO2 (10.8 L CO2 = 0.482 moles of CO2 = 21.2 g of CO2) So if the room were totally air-tight, and there was no plant inside, the oxygen would decrease from 7700 g to 6970 g (from 20% to 18.1%, which wouldn't be great—this is why we don't typically live in airtight rooms!)
Quote from: chiralSPO on 21/03/2022 19:37:14It's unlikely that a houseplant would produce enough oxygen to significantly increase the amount of available oxygen in a house.However, it's possible that houseplants could, in some situations, provide a significant (significant meaning measurable, not necessarily useful) decrease in carbon dioxide concentrations in a house.Imagine a small airtight room with a volume of 27m3. At atmospheric pressure and it would contain roughly 20% oxygen (5400 L O2 = 240 moles of O2 = 7700 g of O2). If the air inside were 400 ppm CO2 (10.8 L CO2 = 0.482 moles of CO2 = 21.2 g of CO2) So if the room were totally air-tight, and there was no plant inside, the oxygen would decrease from 7700 g to 6970 g (from 20% to 18.1%, which wouldn't be great—this is why we don't typically live in airtight rooms!) This would be like living at altitude.