Air Above Dead Sea Contains Very High Levels of Oxidized Mercury

Air Above Dead Sea Contains Very High Levels of Oxidized Mercury
Mon, 29 Nov 2010 09:04:00 -0600

measurements show that the sea's salt has profound effects on the chemistry of the air above its surface.

The atmosphere over the Dead Sea, researchers have found, is laden with oxidized mercury. Some of the highest levels of oxidized mercury ever observed outside the polar regions exist there.

The results appear in a paper published on-line November 28th in the journal Nature Geoscience.

In the research, funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), scientist Daniel ...

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