Laura Helmuth on Nostr: This is fascinating and surprising: mineral deposits in the deep ocean can generate ...

This is fascinating and surprising: mineral deposits in the deep ocean can generate oxygen from seawater. It was such a weird finding that the scientists who first detected it thought for years that their instruments were wrong https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/dark-oxygen-discovered-coming-from-mineral-deposits-on-deep-seafloor/