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T Egbo, JO Dickson, C Miller, A Johs, C Sanders… - 2017 - osti.gov

Characterization, identification and seasonal evaluation of microbes in mercury contaminated soils.

Alliances for Graduate Education and the Professoriate AND Program Evaluation

Dickson, Egbo, Johs, Miller

GSID: iMgE84dlNvAJ

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Mercury (Hg) contamination within the Oak Ridge Reservation has been an ongoing research. A comprehensive understanding of the potentials of predominant microorganisms in selected cleanup strategy is highly paramount. The use of sorbents has been proposed as a cleanup strategy; however, biological factors need to be evaluated as regards to the strategy. The goal of this study was to use microbes isolated from various contaminated sites and determine their effectiveness on sorbents to reduce total Hg (HgT). We isolated DNA …

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