Variability in microbial carbon isotope fractionation of tetra- and trichloroethene upon reductive dechlorination

Chemosphere

Volumn 71, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 639-648

  Cichocka, Danuta ^a   Imfeld, Gwenaël ^a   Richnow, Hans Hermann ^a   Nijenhuis, Ivonne ^a  

^a HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dehalorespiration; Enrichment factors; PCE; TCE

Indexed keywords

CARBON; DECHLORINATION; MICROORGANISMS; TRICHLOROETHYLENE;

CHLORINATED ETHENES; ETHENOGENES STRAIN; MICROBIAL CARBON ISOTOPE; MICROBIAL STRAINS;

FRACTIONATION;

CARBON; TETRACHLOROETHYLENE; TRICHLOROETHYLENE;

CARBON; DECHLORINATION; FRACTIONATION; MICROORGANISMS; TRICHLOROETHYLENE;

BACTERIUM; CARBON ISOTOPE; DECHLORINATION; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; ISOTOPIC FRACTIONATION; REDUCTION; RESPIRATION; TETRACHLOROETHYLENE; TRICHLOROETHYLENE;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BIODEGRADATION; DECHLORINATION; DESULFITOBACTERIUM; DESULFUROMONAS; FRACTIONATION; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; GEOBACTER; ISOTOPE ANALYSIS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

BACTERIA; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; CARBON; CARBON ISOTOPES; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; TETRACHLOROETHYLENE; TRICHLOROETHYLENE; UNCERTAINTY;

DEHALOCOCCOIDES; DEHALOCOCCOIDES ETHENOGENES; DEHALOCOCCOIDES ETHENOGENES 195; DESULFITOBACTERIUM SP.; DESULFUROMONAS MICHIGANENSIS; GEOBACTER LOVLEYI; SULFUROSPIRILLUM; TETRA;

EID: 39849093883     PISSN: 00456535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2007.11.013     Document Type: Article

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