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ALTHOUGH measurements of the mercury concentration in sea water have been made by several investigators1–13, the reported values are widely scattered and it may be significant that almost all the samples were kept in polyethylene bottles after acidification. Weiss et al.14 have reported that the main source of mercury in the oceans was the degassing of the Earth's crust by way of the atmosphere. It should then be supposed that the large experimental variations for open oceans does not reflect the true situation.
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MATSUNAGA, K., NISHIMURA, M. & KONISHI, S. Mercury in the Kuroshio and Oyashio regions and the Japan Sea. Nature 258, 224–225 (1975). https://doi.org/10.1038/258224a0
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