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IT is characteristic of the waters of the earth's crust—among which we can distinguish more than 550 different mineralogical species—that all these chemically different water-solutions constitute theoretically one and the same natural body—a unique great water-equilibrium of the earth's crust1. They are in constant close material connexion. This connexion is produced by two physical equilibrium systems common to all natural water-solutions:
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VERNADSKY, W., BRUNOWSKY, B. & KUNASHEVA, C. Concentration of Mesothorium-I by Duckweed (Lemna). Nature 140, 317–318 (1937). https://doi.org/10.1038/140317a0
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