Between water and rock -- a new science

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The Clark Fork River is not as pristine as it appears. Heavy metals bound to nanoparticles occur in the river sediment and water hundreds of miles from a long-closed mine now a Super Fund clean-up site. Credit: Nicholas W. Haus
The Clark Fork River is not as pristine as it appears. Heavy metals bound to nanoparticles occur in the river sediment and water hundreds of miles from a long-closed mine, now a Super Fund clean-up site. Credit: Nicholas W. Haus

Water chemistry and mineralogy are scientific fields that have been around long enough to develop extensive knowledge and technologies. The boundary of water and rock, however, is not a thin wet line but the huge new field of nanoparticle science.


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