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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Jun 5.
Published in final edited form as: Environ Sci Technol. 2012 May 11;46(11):6150–6157. doi: 10.1021/es204123z

Table 1.

Sample descriptions, abbreviations used in text, and literature sources. Mixture ratio indicates the ratio of the volume of the uraninite-favoring system (Bio1) to the volume of the monomeric U(IV)-favoring system (Bio5) in a sample.

Category Name Bio1: Bio5 Description Sources

Biologically reduced systems Bio1 100:0 uraninite-favoring condition Schofield et al., 2008
Bio2 75:25
Bio3 50:50 Mixtures of Bio1 and Bio5
Bio4 25:75
Bio5 100:0 monomeric U(IV)-favoring condition Bernier-Latmani et al., 2010

Biogenic Fe minerals Vivianite - Monomeric U(IV) produced by biogenic vivianite Veeramani et al., 2011
Magnetite - Uraninite produced by biogenic magnetite

Sediment Sediment - Reduced U in biostimulated Rifle, CO sediments Sharp et al., 2011