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Combined with the very low detection limit of SF<jats:sub>6<\/jats:sub>, this means that these experiments can last up to several years and cover thousands of kilometers. The experiments have revealed that in the open ocean pycnocline, rates of mixing are low (0.1\u20130.2 cm<jats:sup>2<\/jats:sup> s<jats:sup>\u22121<\/jats:sup> at 300 m in the subtropical North Atlantic, for example). An approximately inverse relationship between diapycnal mixing and buoyancy frequency is suggested by most (but not all) tracer investigations to date, though this may not hold in the abyssal ocean far from any boundary. Much smaller scale releases into surface waters have been used to obtain measurements of gas exchange and to enable biogeochemical studies such as iron fertilization experiments on well\u2010defined volumes of water. These experiments take advantage of the fact that in surface water, continuous rapid analysis of sulfur hexafluoride enables the tracer to be tracked and mapped by the observing ship. Recent gas exchange studies using the \u201cdual\u2010tracer\u201d method are summarized; we suggest that they may be reconciled to values based on global <jats:sup>14<\/jats:sup>C exchange by appealing to the effect of organic films observed in coastal waters by <jats:italic>Frew<\/jats:italic> [1997]. The tracer technique makes possible biogeochemical \u201cpatch\u201d studies such as the Ironex I and II experiments in the equatorial Pacific. 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