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Letter: Correction:

Published 4 March 2000

In the Newswire piece
“Murky depths” on 12 February, we listed
boron among the elements left behind in drilling waste on the North Sea floor.
That should have read barium—specifically, the compound barium
sulphate.

Issue no. 2228 published 4 March 2000

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