Video: There's gold in seawater! Can we extract It?

There's gold in seawater! Can we extract It? (video)
Credit: The American Chemical Society

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:

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