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Quick cycling of quicksilver

Models predict that mercury undergoes rapid oxidation in the upper atmosphere. Aircraft measurements support this prediction and provide evidence for a previously unrecognized sink for stratospheric mercury.

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Figure 1: Atmospheric chemistry of mercury.

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Holmes, C. Quick cycling of quicksilver. Nature Geosci 5, 95–96 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo1389

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