{"id":1412,"date":"2024-08-07T15:48:33","date_gmt":"2024-08-07T10:18:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w3toys-com.stackstaging.com\/blog\/?p=1412"},"modified":"2024-08-07T15:48:33","modified_gmt":"2024-08-07T10:18:33","slug":"dark-oxygen-discovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.w3toys.com\/blog\/science\/dark-oxygen-discovery\/","title":{"rendered":"Groundbreaking Dark Oxygen Discovery Explained"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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An international team of researchers has made a big find. They discovered that oxygen is being made in the dark, about 4,000 meters below the ocean’s surface. This goes against the old idea that oxygen comes only from living things like plants and algae through\u00a0photosynthesis<\/b>.<\/p>\n

They found that small, potato-shaped nodules on the ocean floor have a high electric charge. This charge splits seawater into hydrogen and oxygen, a process called\u00a0seawater electrolysis<\/b>. This new discovery, called “dark oxygen,” opens up new ways to think about where life on Earth comes from. It also makes us wonder about the effects of\u00a0deep-sea mining<\/b>\u00a0in the\u00a0Clarion-Clipperton Zone<\/b>.<\/p>\n

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