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When a mommy sun and a daddy cloud of interstellar gas condense into higher-order matter...

• jannes 9y ago
  It wouldn't be trapped in ice if it had been there for that long... I think he meant: how did it get trapped in permafrost? The only hint the article gave was this: > Mercury accumulates in aquatic and terrestrial food chains [...] and: > [...] trapped in permafrost [...] since the last Ice Age.
  • foota 9y ago
    So... Used to be a bunch of living stuff there, it died and the mercury stayed around after it got frozen?
    • fastball 9y ago
      I guess it could be considered the arctic/marine equivalent of oil.