biodegradation

• "The most common method to clean-up groundwater is biodegradation - using microbes to consume the contaminants and break them down into more benign end products that are not harmful to the environment," says U of T geochemist Barbara Sherwood Lollar, the scientist who initiated the concept and goals for the EPA report and is one of its five international authors. —  innovations-report
• Beginning in the 1990s, U of T's Stable Isotope Laboratory has been an international pioneer in discovering how different carbon isotopes can be used to identify whether or not biodegradation is taking place. —  innovations-report
• The aim of our investigation was to compare the specific impact of abiotic oxidation to other alteration processes such as biodegradation, evaporation and water washing. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
• The hypothesis that part of these oxygenated compounds results from abiotic oxidation processes rather than from biodegradation is supported, notably, by the fact that oxygen incorporation generally occurred without any diastereomeric discrimination. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
• Biodegradable Plastics are such that the biodegradation results from the action of naturally occurring micro-organisms such as bacteria, fungi, algae etc. —  Find Free Articles - ArticlesBase

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