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NASA Clean Air Study
__NOTOC__ The NASA Clean Air Study was a project led by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in association with the Associated Landscape Contractors of America (ALCA) in 1989, to research ways to clean the air in sealed environments such as space stations. Its results suggested that, in addition to absorbing carbon dioxide and releasing oxygen through photosynthesis, certain common indoor plants may also provide a natural way of removing volatile organic pollutants (benzene, formaldehyde, and trichloroethylene were tested). These results are not applicable to typical buildings, where outdoor-to-indoor air exchange already removes VOCs at a rate that could only be matched by the placement of 10–1000 plants/m2 of a building’s floor space. The results also failed to replicate in future studies, with a 2014 review stating that "While the plant’s ability to take up VOCs is well documented in laboratory studies, the effect of plants on indoor air in complex ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chamaedorea Seifrizii7
''Chamaedorea'' is a genus of 107 species of Arecaceae, palms, native plant, native to subtropical and tropical regions of the Americas.Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, palms checklist''Chamaedorea''/ref>Huxley, A., ed. (1992). ''New RHS Dictionary of Gardening''. Macmillan . They are small palms, growing to tall with slender, cane-like stems, growing in the understory in Tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests, rainforests, and often spreading by means of underground Stolon, runners, forming clonal colony, clonal colonies. The leaf, leaves are pinnate (rarely entire), with one to numerous leaflets. The flowers are produced in inflorescences; they are plant sexuality, dioecious, with male and female flowers on separate plants. The fruit is an orange or red drupe 0.5–2 cm diameter. Perhaps the best-known species is ''Chamaedorea elegans'' (neanthe bella palm or parlor palm) from Mexico and Guatemala. It is popular as a houseplant, particularly in Victorian houses. Anothe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
