Experienced boiler operators know that oxygen can cause localized, severe corrosion in steam boiler systems through a process called oxygen pitting. This occurs when dissolved oxygen in the water ...

They observe for the first time the movement of oxygen atoms in liquid water, revealing life forms and effects for plasma ...

TALIF works by using a precisely tuned laser to excite the atoms being measured. Instead of absorbing a single photon, each atom absorbs two photons at the same time, and the combined energy of these ...

Oxygen began entering Earth's oceans around 2.32 billion years ago, and shallow seas followed within a few million years.

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