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Environmental plutonium: What is the redox potential of seawater?

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The potential of seawater has recently been reported as 0.8 V. This number conflicts with many literature sources on oceanography.

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Silver, G.L. Environmental plutonium: What is the redox potential of seawater?. Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry Letters 155, 177–181 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02166642

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