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Letter: Gypsum plus carbon

Published 15 December 2004

From Mark Brown

Your article reports on an acidic reaction turning porous limestone solid. Does this mean that acid rain could tend to create an impermeable layer which would prevent water replenishing a limestone aquifer?

Dell Rapids, South Dakota, US

Issue no. 2478 published 18 December 2004

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