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Rare-Earth Metal-Bearing Minerals on Ocean Floor Produce Oxygen, Scientists Say


Researchers from the Scottish Association for Marine Science and colleagues have discovered that the polymetallic nodule-covered abyssal seafloor in the Pacific Ocean produces the so-called ‘dark oxygen.’

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