
In case you're not a chemist, the "H" stands for Hydrogen, the "O" stands for Oxygen, and all the intersections of the black lines are Carbon elements. (Carbon is so common in organic chemistry that it's not even labeled.) The double lines are double bonds.
Plants, of course, synthesize vitamin C out of H, O and C. This is why citrus fruit contains vitamin C. It's made by the plant. Plants also make thousands of other phytonutrients out of carbon dioxide, sunlight and water, which is why plants are so medicinal and nutritious. (Humans can't make their own vitamin C, but dogs can, which is why dogs don't need to eat oranges to prevent scurvy.)
So where do plants (like orange trees) get the carbon to make vitamin C?
Believe it or not, almost nobody in the realm of mainstream journalism seems to know. It's a big mystery to them. They're totally clueless.
In reality, nearly all the carbon used by plants comes from the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Without carbon dioxide, nearly all plant life would die, the food web would collapse and human civilization would be made extinct.
Yet insane, deranged "environmental" journalists continue to openly argue for the complete elimination of all carbon, waging a "war on carbon" in some sort of ignorant suicide march toward oblivion. If you ask a typical media journalist, "Where do plants get the carbon they need to manufacture leaves, stems, seeds, fruit, bark and other structures?" nearly all journalists will have no idea. That's because they've all been absurdly taught that carbon is a "pollutant," and so they parrot the lie like the clueless, illiterate morons they are.
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