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Elusive Metal-Eating Bacteria Predicted Over a Century Ago Discovered in Lab Accident – ScienceAlert

When microbiologist Jared Leadbeater returned to his office for the first time in months after a work trip, he found something strange. A cream-coloured manganese carbonate (MnCO3) compound, coating glassware he’d left soaking in his sink, had turn

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When microbiologist Jared Leadbeater returned to his office for the first time in months after a work trip, he found something strange. A cream-coloured manganese carbonate (MnCO3) compound, coating glassware he’d left soaking in his sink, had turned dark. Something had stolen some of its electrons.
“I thought, ‘What is that?'” said Leadbeater, a researcher at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). The dark substance was a form of manganese oxide – a product that forms when manganese…

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