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You do a lot of good with this account, but "earthworms turn carbon into nitrogen"?

That is called alchemy. Carbon and nitrogen are chemical elements.

Physicists can transform some elements into others (with high energy input or in fission reactors) and radioactive decay does it, too. 

Earthworms don't.

Spreading untrue stuff, does not help to make a better world.
Worms are great, worms are important - but they don't do magic tricks.

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