Different isotope and chemical patterns of pyrite oxidation related to lag and exponential growth phases of Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans reveal a microbial growth strategy

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 270, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 63-72

  Brunner, Benjamin ^a   Yu, Jae Young ^a,b   Mielke, Randall E ^a   MacAskill, John A ^a   Madzunkov, Stojan ^a   McGenity, Terry J ^c   Coleman, Max ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Kangwon National University   (South Korea)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans; composition of sulfate; degassing of sulfur dioxide from acid solutions; growth phases; oxygen and sulfur isotope; pyrite oxidation; sulfite

Indexed keywords

ISOTOPES; LEACHING; OXIDATION; PH EFFECTS; PYRITES; STOICHIOMETRY;

ACIDITHIOBACILLUS FERROOXIDANS; MICROBIAL GROWTH; PYRITE OXIDATION;

GEOCHEMISTRY;

BIOACCUMULATION; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; DEGASSING; GEOMICROBIOLOGY; GROWTH; IRON; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; LEACHING; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; OXIDATION; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PH; PYRITE; STOICHIOMETRY; SULFATE; SULFUR ISOTOPE;

ACIDITHIOBACILLUS FERROOXIDANS;

EID: 43449084913     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2008.03.019     Document Type: Article

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