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We created a new material from orange peel that can clean up mercury pollution

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imageWhen researchers combined two industrial waste products they created a material that could clean up mercury. Ashton Claridge/Flinders University , Author provided

Mercury pollution is one of the most insidious problems in our environment. Today my colleagues and I at Flinders University have unveiled a new material than can scrub mercury from the...

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