Mukul Sharma, Dartmouth College (IMAGE)

Dartmouth College

Mukul Sharma, Dartmouth College

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Dartmouth Professor Mukul Sharma and his colleagues find that chemical reactions between injected freshwater and hydraulically fractured shale could play a major role in generating toxic metal barium in fracking wastewater.

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