Our world can be corrosive – an environment able to swiftly convert the “shiny and new,” into the “dulled and the rusted.” Why so? In our physical world both beauty and blight are made possible by oxygen. A relatively rare element in the universe generally but the transformative ingredient of what makes complex (eukaryotic) life possible. It is said that, “if carbon is the foundation of life then oxygen is its fuel.”
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