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<oai_dc:dc xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:oai_dc="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/ http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc.xsd">
  <dc:contributor>F. H. Chapelle</dc:contributor>
  <dc:creator>P. M. Bradley</dc:creator>
  <dc:date>2002</dc:date>
  <dc:description>&lt;div class="hlFld-Abstract test"&gt;&lt;div class="abstractSection abstractInFull"&gt;&lt;p&gt;Previous investigations demonstrated that respiratoly reductive dechlorination of vinyl chloride (VC) can be efficient even at H&lt;sub&gt;2&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;concentrations (≤2 n&lt;i&gt;M&lt;/i&gt;) that are characteristic of SO&lt;sub&gt;4&lt;/sub&gt;-reducing conditions. In the study reported here, microorganisms indigenous to a lake-bed sediment completely mineralized [1,2-&lt;sup&gt;14&lt;/sup&gt;C] ethene to&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;sup&gt;14&lt;/sup&gt;14CO&lt;sub&gt;2&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;when incubated under SO&lt;sub&gt;4&lt;/sub&gt;-reducing conditions. Together, these observations argue for a novel mechanism for the net anaerobic oxidation of VC to CO&lt;sub&gt;2&lt;/sub&gt;: reductive dechlorination of VC to ethene followed by anaerobic oxidation of ethene to CO&lt;sub&gt;2&lt;/sub&gt;. Moreover, the results of this study suggest that reliance on ethene and/or ethane accumulation as a quantitative indicator of complete reductive dechlorination of chioroethene contaminants may not be warranted.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</dc:description>
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  <dc:identifier>10.1080/10889860290777431</dc:identifier>
  <dc:language>en</dc:language>
  <dc:title>Microbial mineralization of ethene under sulfate-reducing conditions</dc:title>
  <dc:type>article</dc:type>
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