The_simpsons Posted July 28, 2005 Posted July 28, 2005 i read in an article from a science magazine that titanic is being eaten by ironeating bacterias that eat 45 kg of iron from titanic per day, and in some hundred years there be only rests of the ship left. what is the name of the bacteria/s, and how does it process iron? does it oxidize it or what?
rakuenso Posted July 28, 2005 Posted July 28, 2005 ferrobacillus ferrooxidans? They are chemoautotrophic...
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