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Measuring Life’s Limits in the Ocean

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Hank Hogan

Sea life may not lack water for survival, but marine organisms do need nutrients such as nitrate, phosphate, silicate and iron. Researchers, therefore, want an accurate, high-resolution profile of nutrient concentrations in the open ocean, which is a challenge given the five or more orders of magnitude such concentrations span throughout the depths. A 3-D schematic of the second-generation Spectrophotometric Elemental Analysis System instrument shows the pressure housing that contains the battery and heater on the lower right, the three pumps in the center, and the housing containing the...Read full article

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    Published: July 2007
    FeaturesnitratephosphateSensors & DetectorsSpectrophotometric Elemental Analysis Systemspectroscopy

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