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Lead from a car battery has been detected in a lake far from where the battery was discarded. How did the lead get there?
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Lead from a car battery has been detected in a lake far from where the battery was discarded. How did the lead get there?

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The way that lead got to the river is by transportation through soil. When the battery got buried it was still leaking and it moved through the pores of soil and was able to travel very far away to the lake.

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