Cyanobacteria Accumulate Radium (226Ra) within Intracellular Amorphous Calcium Carbonate Inclusions

ACS EST Water 202

Neha Mehta^1,2, Jeremy Bougoure³, Benjamin D. Kocar^2,4, Elodie Duprat¹, Karim Benzerara¹

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[1] Sorbonne Université, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, UMR CNRS 7590, Institut de 

Minéralogie, de Physique des Matériaux et de Cosmochimie, IMPMC, 75005 Paris, France

[2] Parsons Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Civil and Environmental 

Engineering, 15 Vassar St., Cambridge, MA, 02139

[3] School of Earth and Environment, University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, 

Western Australia 6009, Australia

[4] Environmental Laboratory, US Army Engineer Research & Development Center, 3909 Halls Ferry Road, Vicksburg MS, 39180