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Acid could wreck wreck

Raised warship's quandary underlines need to let sunken ships lie.

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  1. Sandstrom, M. et al. Deterioration of the seventeenth-century warship vasa by internal formation of sulphuric acid. Nature 415, 893 - 897 (2002).

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Gillon, J. Acid could wreck wreck. Nature (2002). https://doi.org/10.1038/news020218-15

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