There's gold in seawater! Can we extract It? (video) (IMAGE)

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There's gold in seawater! Can we extract It? (video)

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The ocean has about 20 million tons of gold in it — that’s around 700 TRILLION DOLLARS worth of gold! In this episode of Reactions, we explore how, for over a century, people have struggled to collect it. And we see if, where they failed, we can succeed: https://youtu.be/j5eomDz4Z0E.

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