Bacteria

“In the XV century, people have learned how to get copper out of the blue streams, which flow from the mountains. But the mechanism of Vatting of non-ferrous metals from sulphide ores was understood much later, in the XX century, – says head of the Laboratory of the chemolithotrophs Microorganisms of the Institute of Microbiology named after S.N. Winogradsky Academy of Sciences Tamara Kondratieva to Infox.ru. – Chemolithotrophs acidophilic bacteria play the main role in this process.
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