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"I am invisible yet without me nothing burns and nothing lives. I make up a fifth of the air around you. Too much of me is toxic, too little and you die. What am I?"
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Answer: Oxygen. Oxygen makes up about 21% of Earth's atmosphere. Combustion requires oxygen — without it, fire goes out. Pure oxygen at high concentrations is toxic to humans, but too little causes hypoxia and death.
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