Reactive manganese stabilized by organic molecules in the Chesapeake Bay

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Published in Marine Chemistry, 2015.

Véronique E. Oldham, Shannon M. Owings, Matthew R. Jones, Bradley M. Tebo, George W. Luther. Evidence for the presence of strong Mn(III)-binding ligands in the water column of the Chesapeake Bay, Marine Chemistry, Volume 171, 2015, Pages 58-66, ISSN 0304-4203, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marchem.2015.02.008.

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Reactive manganese was previously thought to be unstable in the marine environment, but we find it to be stabilized by organic molecules in the Chesapeake Bay. In particular, we find that these molecules are so stable that they can exist even in the absence of oxygen, which indicates they have widespread distribution in the global ocean.