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Oxidation: Metabolism & Molecular Action
Oxidation is a primary part of chemistry and biology and essential to life. This chemical reaction is vital for energy production. From...

Sylvia Rose
Oct 24, 20244 min read
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Acid-Producing Bacteria in Sulfuric Acid Creation
Thiobacillus, Thiothrix, and Beggiatoa are genera of acid-producing bacteria with significant contributions to creation of sulfuric...

Sylvia Rose
Oct 24, 20244 min read
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Catalase: Unseen Enzymes Essential to Life
Catalase is an enzyme found in carbon life forms, including humans. It's known for its exceptional ability to decompose hydrogen peroxide...

Sylvia Rose
Oct 23, 20243 min read
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Hydrogen Peroxide H2O2 Decomposition
Hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) is a basic disinfectant and bleach of many households. If stored too long it will decompose. The decomposition...

Sylvia Rose
Oct 23, 20245 min read
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Rotten Egg Sulfur Smell: Microbial Processes
The rotten egg sulfur smell is associated with hydrogen sulfide (H2S), a colorless gas. The stench can arise in water supplies, foods and...

Sylvia Rose
Oct 22, 20244 min read
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Human Methane: The Microbes of Flatulence
Methane microbes are among trillions of microorganisms who call humans home. In digestion these prokaryotes create colorless, odorless...

Sylvia Rose
Oct 22, 20245 min read
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Methanogens: Microbes of Methane Production
Methane (CH4) is a familiar gas emanating from cow dung. Methane's creators are invisible creatures known today as methanaogens,...

Sylvia Rose
Oct 22, 20245 min read
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Lactic Acid Bacteria: Nature to Modern Uses
Lactic acid bacteria are important to fermentation of human foods like yogurt , pickles and cheese . Their transformative powers might be...

Sylvia Rose
Oct 21, 20245 min read
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Microbial Alchemy: Fermentation, Digestion, Putrefaction
Alchemy uses natural processes, often driven by microbial forces. Unseen biological entities include bacteria, amoeba and flagellates....

Sylvia Rose
Oct 20, 20244 min read
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The Unseen World: Protozoans in Nature
Protozoa are single-celled organisms integral to ecosystems worldwide. As microbes they're microscopic and invisible to the human eye....

Sylvia Rose
Oct 20, 20245 min read
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Microbes: Bacteria, Actinomycetes, Protozoa, Fungi & Viruses
Microbes are invisible and exist everywhere, in air, water and soil. Scientists find microbes living in the charred soil wildfires leave...

Sylvia Rose
Oct 19, 20244 min read
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Digestion & Horse Manure: Alchemy Process
Digestion is the alchemical process of applying steady heat to a substance in a flask or container. Digestion can last hours or days. The...

Sylvia Rose
Oct 19, 20244 min read
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Meet the Microbes - History of Microbiology
Microbiology explores the world of microbes or micro-organisms. It reveals a hidden dimension of unseen forces shaping health,...

Sylvia Rose
Oct 19, 20245 min read
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Acetic Acid Bacteria for Vinegar Artisans: Acetobacter
Acetobacter bacteria are a group of acetic acid bacteria species integral to natural processes such as turning wine to vinegar. Their...

Sylvia Rose
Oct 18, 20244 min read
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Bacteria: Unseen Driving Force Behind All Life
Bacteria are responsible for millions of vital processes hidden from our everyday perception. These single-celled organisms are essential...

Sylvia Rose
Oct 17, 20245 min read
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Secret Life of Rust: Power of Bacteria
Rust hides within itself a secret life, orchestrated by industrious communities of microscopic bacteria with immense power in the process...

Sylvia Rose
Oct 16, 20244 min read
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Xanthan Gum & Plant Blight: Xanthomonas Campestris
In microbiology the bacterium Xanthomonas campestris can be a gift from nature or a scourge of plants. Tiny but mighty, these...

Sylvia Rose
Oct 16, 20244 min read
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Secrets of Xanthan Gum for Artists & Chefs
Xanthan Gum, a versatile ingredient with various applications, is a growing trend in multiple industries. In art and food it's valued as...

Sylvia Rose
Oct 15, 20244 min read
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5 Syphilis Treatments of European History
Syphilis is a complex disease, leading to unusual and alternative treatments in history. A sexually transmitted disease, syphilis is...

Sylvia Rose
Oct 10, 20244 min read
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Vinegar Cures of Physician Dioscorides
Pedanius Dioscorides (c. 40 - 90 AD) is a Greek physician known as the father of pharmacognosy. Pharmacologist, botanist and prolific...

Sylvia Rose
Aug 13, 20245 min read
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