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TIL about 'Dark Oxygen', which is produced on the Ocean Floor by Lumps of Metal
(www.smithsonianmag.com)
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this post was submitted on 01 Aug 2024
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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.