Article synopsis:
Researchers are discovering that a wide variety of bacteria create nodules of minerals as a byproduct of metabolic processes and exert control over the level of various chemicals in marine environments.

Article citation:
"Minding those microbial mineral-makers," Science News, Feb. 13, 1993, p. 110.

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