Reductive dechlorination of TCE by chemical model systems in comparison to dehalogenating bacteria: Insights from dual element isotope analysis ( 13C/12C, 37Cl/35Cl)

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 47, Issue 13, 2013, Pages 6855-6863

  Cretnik, Stefan ^a   Thoreson, Kristen A ^a   Bernstein, Anat ^a   Ebert, Karin ^b   Buchner, Daniel ^b   Laskov, Christine ^b   Haderlein, Stefan ^b   Shouakar Stash, Orfan ^c   Kliegman, Sarah ^d   McNeill, Kristopher ^d   Elsner, Martin ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^d ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL MODEL SYSTEMS; DESULFITOBACTERIUM; DIFFERENT MECHANISMS; ENRICHMENT FACTORS; ENVIRONMENTAL CONTAMINANT; ISOTOPE MEASUREMENTS; MICROBIAL REDUCTIVE DECHLORINATION; REDUCTIVE DECHLORINATION;

BIODEGRADATION; CARBON; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; DECHLORINATION; ISOTOPES; STRAIN;

CHLORINE;

CARBON 13; CHLORINE; COBALAMIN; TRICHLOROETHYLENE;

BIODEGRADATION; BIOTRANSFORMATION; CARBON ISOTOPE; CHLORINE ISOTOPE; ETHYLENE; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BIODEGRADATION; BIOTRANSFORMATION; CHEMICAL MODEL; DECHLORINATION; DEHALOGENATION; DESULFITOBACTERIUM; DESULFITOBACTERIUM NIENSE; GEOBACTER; GEOBACTER LOVLEYI; ISOTOPE ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN;

BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; CARBON ISOTOPES; CHLORINE; DESULFITOBACTERIUM; GEOBACTER; ISOTOPES; ORGANOMETALLIC COMPOUNDS; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; TRICHLOROETHYLENE; VITAMIN B 12; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 84880093635     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es400107n     Document Type: Article

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