Accession Number:

AD0813803

Title:

CORROSION AND REDUCTION OF IRON BY A SOLUBLE DEHYDROGENASE PRODUCED BY DESULFOVIBRIO DESULFURICANS

Descriptive Note:

Corporate Author:

FORT DETRICK FREDERICK MD

Personal Author(s):

• Iverson, Warren P.

Report Date:

1967-05-01

Pagination or Media Count:

13.0

Abstract:

Desulfovibrio desulfuricans liberates a soluble hydrogenase that is capable of reducing Fe to elemental iron in a hydrogen atmosphere. The classical cathodic depolarization theory of bacterial corrosion is modified to account for this finding. The corrosion rate by this mechanism appears to be very small.

Descriptors:

• *CORROSION
• *SPIRILLACEAE
• *OXIDOREDUCTASES
• POLARIZATION
• VIBRIO
• MICROORGANISMS
• HYDROGEN
• IRON

Subject Categories:

• Microbiology

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE