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Science 15 April 1977:
Vol. 196. no. 4287, pp. 291 - 292
DOI: 10.1126/science.196.4287.291
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Tritium-Helium Dating in the Sargasso Sea: A Measurement of Oxygen Utilization Rates

W. J. JENKINS 1

1 Department of Chemistry, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Massachusetts 02543

The newly developed technique of "tritium-helium dating" has been used to investigate in situ rates of oceanic oxygen utilization. As an example, an apparent oxygen utilization rate of 0.20 ± 0.02 milliliter per liter of water per year has been obtained for the Subtropical Mode water (18°C water) in the Sargasso Sea.

Submitted on September 13, 1976
Revised on November 9, 1976

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