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Microbial transformation of 2, 4, 6-trinitrotoluene

Lewis et al., 1997

Document ID
1826137832720649949
Author
Lewis T
Ederer M
Crawford R
Crawford D
Publication year
Publication venue
Journal of Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology

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The manufacture and decommissioning of explosives has generated, and continues to generate, large quantities of waste material whose primary toxic and mutagenic component is 2, 4, 6-trinitrotoluene (TNT). The magnitude of this problem has motivated a great deal of …
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