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Science 25 February 1966:
Vol. 151. no. 3713, pp. 991 - 992
DOI: 10.1126/science.151.3713.991
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Oxidation of Graphitic Carbon in Certain Soils

Elie A. Shneour 1

1 Department of Genetics, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, and NASA-Ames Research Center, Mountain View, California

Artificial graphitic carbon-14 was oxidized to carbon-14 dioxide in the presence of certain nonsterile soils. Treatment of these soils for the inhibition of biologic activity, by several methods including 5 megarads of electron-beam irradiation, yielded much-less-reactive systems in the oxidation of carbon. Intervention of a biologic agent in some of these oxidative processes is suggested.


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