Under Pressure: Mimicking Chemical Reactions in the Earth's Crust

1,340 views · Published 11 July 2014 · 1:48 · Indexed 8 November 2026

Channel: UC Davis · 2014 · Education

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Researchers want to understand how chemicals behave dissolved in water deep in the Earth. A new device invented at UC Davis lets them take NMR measurements under high pressure. This could be used for understanding "deep carbon" and Earth processes, and could be important for studying "fracking" and the fate of buried nuclear waste. 

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