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Outgassing from volcanoes formed the Earth's original atmosphere. Later green plants converted large amounts of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere to create the modern atmosphere with roughly 20% oxygen, 80% nitrogen, and tiny amounts of other gasses.

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Some of the earth's atmosphere was made from volcanic eruptions in the past and also when a comet struck earth like when the dinosaurs were alive it cooled down the planet.

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