The Production of 34S-Depleted Sulfide During Bacterial Disproportionation of Elemental Sulfur

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Dec 1994

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1994sci...266.1973c&link_type=abstract

Science, Volume 266, Issue 5193, pp. 1973-1975

Physics

41

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Bacteria that disproportionate elemental sulfur fractionate sulfur isotopes such that sulfate is enriched in sulfur-34 by 12.6 to 15.3 per mil and sulfide is depleted in sulfur-34 by 7.3 to 8.6 per mil. Through a repeated cycle of sulfide oxidation to S^0 and subsequent disproportionation, these bacteria can deplete sedimentary sulfides in sulfur-34. A prediction, borne out by observation, is that more extensive sulfide oxidation will lead to sulfides that are more depleted in sulfur-34. Thus, the oxidative part of the sulfur cycle creates circumstances by which sulfides become more depleted in sulfur-34 than would be possible with sulfate-reducing bacteria alone.

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