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Letter: For the record

Published 5 May 2010

• Contrary to the caption for the map in our article on mass extinction, Jersey is one of the Channel Islands, and is not part of the UK (24 April, p 38).

• It is hydroxyl radicals, rather than ions, that would oxidise sulphur dioxide emitted from the Toba supervolcano (17 April, p 28).

• In our article on endurance, we mispelled the name of world record holder Stephane Mifsud (17 April, p 34).

Issue no. 2759 published 8 May 2010

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