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Bascom Palmer Saves Sight of UM Ocean Scientist Using Gas he studies at Sea

Jim Happell, Ph.D., could write a dissertation on sulfur hexafluoride in his sleep. For the past 15 years, the University of Miami scientist has measured the presence of the colorless, odorless, and nonflammable gas in oceans around the world, using it as a transient tracer to study currents and circulation patterns.

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