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July 08, 2014

Ironing out details of the carbon cycle
Columbia SC (SPX) Jul 08, 2014
Iron is present in tiny concentrations in seawater. On the order of a few billionths of a gram in a liter. "I did a calculation once on a ton of ocean water," says Seth John, an assistant professor in the department of marine science at the University of South Carolina. "The amount of iron in that ton of water would weigh about as much as a single eyelash." Given that there is so little iron in seawater, one might conclude that its presence there is inconsequential. Hardly. Iron is one of th ... read more

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