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Describe one experiment each of you would perform to demonstrate the following phenomena: The germinating seeds can respire even in a total absence of air.
Solution
(1) Take few soaked and peeled off pea seeds and push them into the mouth of a test tube filled with mercury and inverted in a beaker of mercury. The seeds will float to the top and will be completely surrounded by mercury.
(2) After few days, the level of mercury falls and the presence of some gas in the test tube can be detected.
(3) Add some KOH to the test tube. The gas present in the test tube will be absorbed and the level of mercury will again rise showing that the gas was CO2. Hence, we can prove that germinating seeds respire even in the total absence of air.
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