Radioactive Carbon From Nuclear Bomb Tests Found In Deep Ocean Trenches


Matthew Lewis

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  • Category : Chemistry
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  • By : Matthew Lewis
Abstract
Radioactive carbon released into the atmosphere from 20th-century nuclear bomb tests has reached the deepest parts of the ocean, a new study finds. Crustaceans in deep ocean trenches have incorporated this 'bomb carbon' into the molecules that make up their bodies.
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Radioactive carbon atmosphere 20th century bomb nuclear deepest ocean Crustaceans bodies molecules
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