Sentence examples for microbes that oxidize from inspiring English sources

An idea developed by British botanist Potter [4] in 1911 was to produce electricity using microbes that oxidize organic molecules.

He found that a number of shallow water bivalves had a similar survival strategy -- employing endosymbiotic microbes that oxidize hydrogen sulfide to produce energy.

An aerator agitates the first pool by pumping oxygen into it, thus promoting the growth of microbes that oxidize the odor-causing ammonia into nitrates.

"If there were oxygen producing microbes then, [as well as] microbes that were oxidizing iron near hydrothermal vents, we have quite a significant diversity, because these are somewhat distantly related microorganisms today," said Papineau.

Others encode enzymes that oxidize the nitrogen in the ammonia in several steps, regenerating the nitrogen.

Startup LS9 is developing microbes that produce hydrocarbons.

The researchers say their experiments show that the electrons are produced by anaerobic bacteria that oxidize organic compounds in the mud.

Two papers published last week highlight microbes that fall in the "good microbe" category.

The microbes that do this are in the Archaea family.

The model microbes include human and agricultural pathogens and microbes that are commonly considered innocuous.

Digestive enzymes destroy microbes that enter the stomach with food.