Stable carbon isotope enrichment factors for cis -1,2-dichloroethene and vinyl chloride reductive dechlorination by dehalococcoides

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 45, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 2951-2957

  Fletcher, Kelly E ^a   Nijenhuis, Ivonne ^c   Richnow, Hans Hermann ^c   Löffler, Frank E ^a,b,d,e,f  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^e University of Tennessee   (United States)

^f OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLORINATED ETHENES; DECHLORINATION REACTION; DEHALOCOCCOIDES; DICHLOROETHENES; ENRICHMENT FACTORS; IN-SITU; MICROBIAL ACTIVITIES; MIXED CULTURES; ORDER OF MAGNITUDE; PURE CULTURE; REDUCTIVE DECHLORINATION; REDUCTIVE DEHALOGENASES; REPRODUCIBILITIES; STABLE CARBON ISOTOPES; STABLE-ISOTOPE ANALYSIS; VINYL CHLORIDES;

CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; EXPERIMENTS; GENES; ISOTOPES; REACTION KINETICS; STRAIN;

DECHLORINATION;

1,2 DICHLOROETHANE; CARBON; STABLE ISOTOPE; VINYL CHLORIDE;

BACTERIUM; CARBON ISOTOPE; CATALYST; DECHLORINATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; ORGANOCHLORINE; STABLE ISOTOPE; TRANSFORMATION;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BIOTRANSFORMATION; CATALYSIS; DECHLORINATION; DEHALOCOCCOIDES; FRACTIONATION; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; NONHUMAN; REPRODUCIBILITY;

BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; BIOTRANSFORMATION; CARBON ISOTOPES; CHLOROFLEXI; DICHLOROETHYLENES; HALOGENATION; VINYL CHLORIDE; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

DEHALOCOCCOIDES;

EID: 79953254237     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es103728q     Document Type: Article

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