• Question: what is your favorite thing to do in chemistry?

    Asked by 426cmtm52 to Rehemat on 6 Mar 2018.
    • Photo: Rehemat Bhatia

      Rehemat Bhatia answered on 6 Mar 2018:

      Probably lasering plankton fossils to find out the chemistry of their skeletons! It’s an amazing technique, and we can find out so much about the climate in the past using concentrations of different chemical elements.

      Magnesium can tell us how warm the oceans were.
      Oxygen can tell us how much ice there was on land.
      Boron can tell us how acidic the oceans were.

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