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Otter@lemmy.ca to Today I Learned (TIL)@lemmy.caEnglish · 11 months ago

TIL about 'Dark Oxygen', which is produced on the Ocean Floor by Lumps of Metal

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TIL about 'Dark Oxygen', which is produced on the Ocean Floor by Lumps of Metal

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Otter@lemmy.ca to Today I Learned (TIL)@lemmy.caEnglish · 11 months ago
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  • Troy@lemmy.ca
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    That photo is silly. A bunch of people will scroll past thinking oxygen can be a black solid haha.

    Dark, in this context, simply means it is being produced without light. This paper and finding should not be surprising to anyone with a chemistry background. In fact, I wonder why it has any traction at all.

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    For the love of god, no deep sea mining

  • Otter@lemmy.caOP
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    11 months ago

    See the other post over in !science@mander.xyz

    https://lemmy.ca/post/26128882

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    If you put a standard AA battery into saltwater, you’ll observe bubbles and hear a fizz—that’s the generation of hydrogen and oxygen gases as the electricity splits water molecules, a process known as electrolysis

    That sounds like a bad idea. Don’t do this.

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    Sweet, man

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