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Van Helmont concluded that plants get their food from

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Air

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Water

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Humus

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Air and

H_{2} O

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Solution

The correct option is B Water
Van Helmont concluded that plants get their food from water. Van Helmont wanted to prove plants use materials from the soil to perform photosynthesis and done an experiment and proved that.

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