Thanks, I knew someone would make it right. Oxygen causes
rust and rot. Wonder why we can't do without it? <bg>
Ted
pgolden wrote:
>
> >I think it's becsue it takes air to make them rot and
> >there's little air there. Right scientists???
>
> Oxygen, specifically. There's an article in today's paper about Robert
> Ballard discovering some 2500+year-old Phoenician merchant vessels in the
> Mediterranean and they are almost perfectly preserved because of the
> depth.
>
> + Patrick Golden + Program Services Director + pgolden@mail.wrl.org
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