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Data presented here also demonstrate that d2H values of mid-chain sedimentary waxes do not strongly correlate to the d2H values of lake water when it decouples isotopically from precipitation (i.e. in glacier-fed and evaporatively-enriched lakes). This calls into question the common interpretation that mid-chain sedimentary waxes can be ascribed to aquatic plants. We contextualize our Greenland data with an updated global dataset of d2H values of modern sedimentary waxes and precipitation. This update adds 100 + lakes from recently published literature to the seminal review presented by Sachse et al. (2012). This large new compilation suggests a global average apparent fractionation including Arctic data between n-C28 alkanoic acids and annual precipitation (EC28/ANN) of -99permil, and between n-C29 alkanes and annual precipitation (EC29/ANN) of -121permil. The latter value is remarkably consistent with the value first reported by Sachse et al. 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