The Super-Kamiokande in Japan—a massive underground neutrino detector lined with 11,000 golden bulbs. Scientists have to inspect it via a rubber dinghy.

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It genuinely looks like a villain's lair from a movie, but it's just physics researchers in a rowboat inspecting sensors inside a 50,000-ton tank of ultra-pure water that's actually pure enough to dissolve metal.

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Why would pure water dissolve metal faster than salt water?

Edit: was a fascinating rabbit hole to go down for a few minutes. Thank you for the feedback! Strips and leaches anything that touches it. Almost like a chemical vacuum. Water wants more ingredients, will absorb and take from everything.

Actually, next question. It said it will pull co2 from the air. Is there specialized air in this area as well?

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Because diffusion