Rare Carbon Dioxide

8/31/2006 – 9:52 am

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Rare Carbon Dioxide “Lake” Found Under the Ocean, Scientists Report

A team of scientists based in Japan and Germany has found an unusual “lake” of liquid carbon dioxide beneath the ocean floor.

On Earth’s surface carbon dioxide (CO2) is normally a gas, but in the cold, high-pressure ocean depths it cools and becomes a liquid.

I’m wondering what happens if somehow this stuff is disturbed and boils to the surface.

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