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Ethan James

Origin-of-life oxygen exhibit a 'scientific experiment'

Musueum visitors will be able to breathe in pure oxygen linked to a 2.5 billion-year-old event. (PR IMAGE PHOTO)

About 2.5 billion years ago, a mass production of oxygen by bacteria paved the way for life on earth as we know it.

In a dark spherical underground room at Hobart's Museum of Old and New Art, Julian Charriere is inviting people to breathe in pure air from the ancient era.

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