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In order to determine when oxygen levels increased in the Earth's atmosphere, which element did James Farquhar and his team search for in rocks?​

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Sulfur

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Sulfur commonly exists as a combination of several forms (isotopes) of the element. A few years ago, Farquhar discovered that the photochemistry of Earth's early atmosphere produced sulfur that had a slightly different ratio for three of these isotopes.

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