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Researchers have long believed that frozen environments slow chemical reactions, but new research challenges this belief.
In a study published last month in the journal PNAS, researchers have demonstrated that ice can dissolve iron minerals better than liquid water, with implications for the many Arctic rivers mysteriously turning orange as the planet warms.
Specifically, Jean-François Boily, a co-author of the study and a chemist at Umeå University, and…
