Articles | Volume 11, issue 10
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-11-2561-2014
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-11-2561-2014
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16 May 2014
Research article |  | 16 May 2014

Accelerated microbial-induced CaCO3 precipitation in a defined coculture of ureolytic and non-ureolytic bacteria

D. Gat, M. Tsesarsky, D. Shamir, and Z. Ronen

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