The use of solid peroxides to stimulate growth of aerobic microbes in tundra

摘要

Solid peroxides and peroxyhydrates degrade into a basic salt, water, and molecular oxygen when in contact with biologically active soils. Column reactors were used to quantify the extent to which three solid peroxides would stimulate growth of aerobic, heterotrophic bacteria and fungi in contaminated tundra soil. Soils in contact with a peroxide compound were incubated in column reactors at field moisture conditions at either 12 or 25 deg. C with no mixing.