Magnetite from magnetotactic bacteria: Size distributions and twinning

American Mineralogist

Volumn 83, Issue 11-12 PART 2, 1998, Pages 1387-1398

  Devouard, Bertrand ^a,b,c,d   Pósfai, Mihály ^a,b,c,d   Hua, Xin ^a,b,c,d   Bazylinski, Dennis A ^a,b,c,d   Frankel, Richard B ^a,b,c,d   Buseck, Peter R ^a,b,c,d  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITÉ BLAISE PASCAL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALS; HIGH RESOLUTION TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; MAGNETITE; SIZE DISTRIBUTION;

CHARACTERISTIC SHAPES; FRESHWATER SPECIES; MAGNETITE CRYSTALS; MAGNETITE PARTICLES; MAGNETOTACTIC BACTERIA; PARTICLE MORPHOLOGIES; ROD-SHAPED BACTERIA; STRUCTURAL FEATURE; SPARSE MULTIPLES;

BACTERIA;

BACTERIUM; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; MAGNETITE;

EID: 0032445692     PISSN: 0003004X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2138/am-1998-11-1228     Document Type: Article

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