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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWorld's oldest water? Samples may date back 2.5b years
Story hereDeep in a mine in Canada, scientists have found some very old water. You may not want to sip any just yet: it's two and a half billion years old.
From the article:
As well as the new estimates for the volume of the ancient water, the researchers used data from 19 different mine sites, studied as part of the Deep Carbon Observatory programme, to assess how much hydrogen was being produced through the underground chemical reactions.
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World's oldest water? Samples may date back 2.5b years (Original Post)
shenmue
Dec 2014
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GummyBearz
(2,931 posts)1. I'll still put it through my brita filter before drinking
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Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)2. Well, it's all VASTLY older than that...
But what they're saying is, this water hasn't been to the surface, or hasn't been contaminated by surface water, for at least that long.
Pretty neat to think, though - 77% of your body mass is actually older than the planet you're standing on.
So is the other 33%, though, so.
NYC_SKP
(68,644 posts)3. Yeah, all the water is pretty much very old water.
TexasTowelie
(112,251 posts)6. New math?
77 + 33 = 110
Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)7. Some people are pretty big...
bah.
Next time i'll break out my abacus, okay?
Aerows
(39,961 posts)4. I guess no one has been to
Antarctica yet. Oh wait.
Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)5. Antarctica's trapped liquid water is actually fairly "recent"
It's only been glaciated for 15 million years.
SamKnause
(13,108 posts)8. Thanks for posting.
I love science.
shenmue
(38,506 posts)9. You're welcome