Biomineralization of coral sand by Bacillus thuringiensis isolated from a travertine cave

Abstract Travertine is a typical product of microbial mineralization in the nature and its mineral composition is mainly calcite and aragonite. In this paper, Bacillus thuringiensis, a kind of mineralize bacterium is extracted from the travertine crystal to cenment coral sand, and the reinforcement...

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Main Authors: Yao Xiao, Huafeng Deng, Jianlin Li
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2023-05-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-35893-z