Using stable isotope fractionation factors to identify Cr(VI) reduction pathways: Metal-mineral-microbe interactions

Water Research

Volumn 151, Issue , 2019, Pages 98-109

  Zhang, Qiong ^a   Amor, Ken ^a   Galer, Stephen J G ^b   Thompson, Ian ^a   Porcelli, Don ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bacterial reduction; Biogeochemistry; Chromium; Isotope fractionation; Metal mineral microbe interaction

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; CHROMIUM COMPOUNDS; HEMATITE; ISOTOPES; RARE EARTHS; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

% REDUCTIONS; BACTERIAL REDUCTION; CR ISOTOPES; FRACTIONATION FACTORS; HAEMATITE; ISOTOPE FRACTIONATION; METAL-MINERAL-MICROBE INTERACTION; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS; SHEWANELLA; SHEWANELLA ONEIDENSIS MR-1;

METALS;

CHROMIUM; FERRIC HYDROXIDE; FERRIC OXIDE; IRON OXIDE; MEMBRANE ENZYME; METAL; MINERAL; STABLE ISOTOPE; BLOOD CLOTTING FACTOR 7; CHROMIUM HEXAVALENT ION; FERRIC ION; ISOTOPE;

ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; AQUEOUS SOLUTION; BACTERIUM; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; CHROMIUM; GOETHITE; HEMATITE; INHIBITION; ION EXCHANGE; IRON; ISOTOPIC FRACTIONATION; METAL; MINERAL; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTY; REDUCTION; STABLE ISOTOPE; SURVIVAL;

ANAEROBIC GROWTH; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL INTERACTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; FRACTIONATION; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROORGANISM; NONHUMAN; OPTICAL DENSITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS; REDUCTION (CHEMISTRY); SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SHEWANELLA ONEIDENSIS; SURFACE PROPERTY; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS; SHEWANELLA; SHEWANELLA ONEIDENSIS MR-1;

CHROMIUM; FACTOR VII; FERRIC COMPOUNDS; ISOTOPES; METALS; MINERALS; OXIDATION-REDUCTION;

EID: 85059045807     PISSN: 00431354     EISSN: 18792448     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2018.11.088     Document Type: Article

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