Microbial reduction of chlorite and uranium followed by air oxidation
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a Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China b Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA c Department of Geological and Environmental Sciences, University of Akron, Akron, OH, USA d Department of Geology, Miami University, Oxford, OH, USA e Biosciences Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL, USA
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