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Archive Home > 2008 > August > 09 > Toxic mercury in Great Salt Lake studied

Toxic mercury in Great Salt Lake studied

By Mike Stark / The Bulletin
August 9, 2008

GREAT SALT LAKE, Utah — The Great Salt Lake is so briny that swimmers bob in the water like corks. It is teeming with tiny shrimp that were sold for years in the back of comic books as magical “sea monkeys.” And, for reasons scientists cannot explain, it is heavily....

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