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TIL about 'Dark Oxygen', which is produced on the Ocean Floor by Lumps of Metal (www.smithsonianmag.com)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

If you put a standard AA battery into saltwater, you’ll observe bubbles and hear a fizz—that’s the generation of hydrogen and oxygen gases as the electricity splits water molecules, a process known as electrolysis

That sounds like a bad idea. Don't do this.