Battery-Like Metals Generate “Dark Oxygen” in the Deep Ocean

But have you ever heard of dark oxygen?

Prior to this, scientists believed that marine plants were producing all the oxygen in the ocean through photosynthesis.

Currently, deep-sea mining corporations are developing plans to extract the nodules.

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Dark oxygen is a term used to describe oxygen production on the sea floor without photosynthesis.

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