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Tracing metals from Earth to water to life in China's Yellow River

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The Yellow River stretches from the Tibetan Plateau to the Bohai Sea in China .

It is so called because of the color lent by massive amounts of suspended sediments along its 5,400-kilometer length.

Yidi Wang and team analyzed the metal content of water, particulate, and sediment samples.

They found metal abundance spanned 10 orders of magnitude, with alkali and alkaline metals being the most common.

Gold, iridium, and palladium were more abundant in water than in the upper continental crust.

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