Green plants are known to enrich the atmosphere with oxygen during the day and carbon dioxide

Green plants are known to enrich the atmosphere with oxygen during the day and carbon dioxide at night. How can this be explained?

In the daytime, with the help of sunlight, water and carbon dioxide, plants undergo a process of converting the energy of the Sun and inorganic substances into organic ones (photosynthesis). It turns out that plants release oxygen during the day as a by-product of photosynthesis. At night, due to the lack of sunlight, the process of photosynthesis does not take place, and plants emit carbon dioxide as a by-product of respiration. Simply put, plants undergo photosynthesis during the day, and they simply breathe at night.