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Original Articles

Microbial desulfurization of coal by chaemoautotrophic thiobacillus ferrooxidans‐an iron mine isolate

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Pages 2045-2061 | Received 11 Oct 1993, Accepted 31 Aug 1994, Published online: 15 Dec 2008

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