sulfate reduction

sulfate reduction
(sul\'feīt)
The process of sulfate use as an oxidizing agent, which results in the accumulation of reduced forms of sulfur such as sulfide, or incorporation of sulfur into organic molecules, usually as sulfhydryl groups.

Microbiology. . 2009.

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