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As van Beneden1 has shown, iron bacteria may be obtained from fresh-water by reducing the iron in this water by percolation through a layer of soil. In the thin layer where the effluent oxidizes (presumably ferrous carbonate or bicarbonate to hydrated ferric oxide) the bacteria develop.
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Beneden, G. van, Hydrologia, 3, 1 (1951).
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BAAS BECKING, L., MOORE, D. Iron Bacteria in Mine-waters. Nature 186, 660 (1960). https://doi.org/10.1038/186660a0
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