Carbon and hydrogen isotope fractionation during anaerobic toluene oxidation by Geobacter metallireducens with different Fe(III) phases as terminal electron acceptors

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 42, Issue 21, 2008, Pages 7786-7792

  Tobler, Nicole B ^a   Hofstetter, Thomas B ^a   Schwarzenbach, René P ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUIFERS; BIODEGRADATION; CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; DISSOLUTION; FULLERENES; HYDROGEN; HYDROGEOLOGY; ISOTOPES; OXIDATION; PORT TERMINALS; SILICA; SILICATE MINERALS; SUSPENSIONS (COMPONENTS); SUSPENSIONS (FLUIDS); TOLUENE;

ATTENUATION PROCESSES; BATCH SYSTEMS; BTEX COMPOUNDS; CARBON AND HYDROGENS; CONTAMINATED SITES; ENRICHMENT FACTORS; GEOBACTER METALLIREDUCENS; ISOTOPE ANALYSIS; LINEAR CORRELATIONS; MICROBIAL OXIDATIONS; MINERAL SUSPENSIONS; PHASE REDUCTIONS; REACTION MECHANISMS; REDUCING CONDITIONS; TERMINAL ELECTRON ACCEPTORS; TOLUENE OXIDATIONS; TRANSPORT LIMITATIONS;

IRON COMPOUNDS;

CARBON; HYDROGEN; IRON; TOLUENE;

ABUNDANCE; AQUIFER; BACTERIUM; BIODEGRADATION; BTEX; CARBON ISOTOPE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HYDROGEN ISOTOPE; IRON; ISOTOPIC FRACTIONATION; OXIDATION; TOLUENE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL REACTION; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; GEOBACTER; GEOBACTER METALLIREDUCENS; ISOTOPE ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION; REDUCTION;

ANAEROBIOSIS; BENZENE; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; BIOREACTORS; CARBON ISOTOPES; CHEMICAL FRACTIONATION; ELECTRONS; FERRIC COMPOUNDS; GEOBACTER; HYDROGEN; KINETICS; MINERALS; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; TIME FACTORS; TOLUENE; XYLENES;

GEOBACTER METALLIREDUCENS;

EID: 55349090994     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es800046z     Document Type: Article

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