Bacteria Eating Uranium [electron microscope magnification]

alanocu

5-6-2008 7:47 AM

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								Electron microscopy</DIV></SPAN></blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.eyeofscience.com/eos2/english/gallery/templates/galeriepics/baktviren/uranshow/01.jpg" href="http://www.eyeofscience.com/eos2/english/gallery/templates/galeriepics/baktviren/uranshow/01.jpg" style="font-size: 11px;">www.eyeofscience.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.eyeofscience.com/eos2/english/gallery/templates/galeriepics/baktviren/uranshow/01.jpg"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.eyeofscience.com/img/B9C301A7-5E47-4831-9549-61ABEC5653F4" alt="http://www.eyeofscience.com/eos2/english/gallery/templates/galeriepics/baktviren/uranshow/01.jpg" /></div></blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.eyeofscience.com/eos2/english/gallery/bakvir/bsp5.html" href="http://www.eyeofscience.com/eos2/english/gallery/bakvir/bsp5.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.eyeofscience.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.eyeofscience.com/eos2/english/gallery/bakvir/bsp5.html">
								being used to digest uranium waste. This bacteria is able to survive in radioactive environments and turn the uranium waste from a soluble form (that can contaminate water supplies) to a solid form.</blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.eyeofscience.com/eos2/english/gallery/templates/galeriepics/baktviren/uranshow/02.jpg" href="http://www.eyeofscience.com/eos2/english/gallery/templates/galeriepics/baktviren/uranshow/02.jpg" style="font-size: 11px;">www.eyeofscience.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.eyeofscience.com/eos2/english/gallery/templates/galeriepics/baktviren/uranshow/02.jpg"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.eyeofscience.com/img/72266C6E-534C-47F2-8004-F76C34113B53" alt="The image “http://www.eyeofscience.com/eos2/english/gallery/templates/galeriepics/baktviren/uranshow/02.jpg” cannot be displayed, because it contains errors." /></div></blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.eyeofscience.com/eos2/english/gallery/bakvir/bsp5.html" href="http://www.eyeofscience.com/eos2/english/gallery/bakvir/bsp5.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.eyeofscience.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.eyeofscience.com/eos2/english/gallery/bakvir/bsp5.html">
								Other species of Geobacter bacteria can eliminate petroleum contamination in polluted water and convert waste organic matter to electricity. Geobacter sp. are anaerobic bacteria (living without oxygen) that use metals to gain energy in the same way that humans use oxygen. Coloured scanning electron micrograph, Magnification: x3,600 and x4,800</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/5D236D0F-60EB-4BCE-8411-25E2DBC6A8BD/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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