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What process do certain prokaryotes use nitrates or sulfates rather than oxygen as the terminal electron acceptor?
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"Anaerobic respiration" doesn't require oxygen. True anaerobic respiration involves an electron acceptor other than oxygen. Bacteria are capable of using a wide variety of compounds as terminal electron acceptors in respiration: nitrogenous compounds (such as nitrates and nitrites), sulfur compounds (such as sulfates, sulfites, sulfur dioxide, and elemental sulfur), carbon dioxide, iron compounds, manganese compounds, cobalt compounds, and uranium compounds. "Anaerobic respiration" doesn't require oxygen. True anaerobic respiration involves an electron acceptor other than oxygen. Bacteria are capable of using a wide variety of compounds as terminal electron acceptors in respiration: nitrogenous compounds (such as nitrates and nitrites), sulfur compounds (such as sulfates, sulfites, sulfur dioxide, and elemental sulfur), carbon dioxide, iron compounds, manganese compounds, cobalt compounds, and uranium compounds.
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Is sulfur in sulfates?
Yes. sulfates are SO42-
What are the properties of sulfates?
Sulfates such as anhydrite (CaSO4) are cmposed of elements with the sulfate compound SO4.
How do sulfates function in the environment?
Sulfates of sodium, potassium and magnesium are all water-soluble, while the sulfates of calcium, barium and heavy metals are not. Dissolved sulfates can be reduced to sulfides, which volatilize into the air as hydrogen sulfide, or are precipitated as an insoluble salt or incorporated into vivants.
What element is in all sulfides and sulfates?
sulphur
Does Wen Shampoo contain sulfates and sodium chloride?
No.
What forms when water condenses around nitrates and sulfates?
acid rain
What kind of salts?
Examples are: chlorides, arsenates, uranates, iodides, sulfates, nitrates etc.
NAG SAG?
Nitrates, Acetates, Group 1, Sulfates, Ammonium, Group 17
What are types of salts?
Examples: nitrates, chlorides, acetates, sulfates, formiates, uranates, iodides etc.
What are salts of oxo-acids?
Examples are: nitrates, phosphates, oxalates, stearates, selenates, sulfates etc.
What metallic salts are soluble in water?
Examples: chlorides, sulfates, carbonates of alkali metals, nitrates etc.
What types of salts dissolve in rivers?
Examples are soluble salts as: sodium chloride and other chlorides, nitrates, sulfates, phosphates etc.
How are salts in chemical reactions names?
The question is unclear. Salts are for ex. sulfates, chlorides, nitrates, iodides, stearates, bromides etc.
What do you meant by family of salts?
These are salts derived from the same acid; examples are: nitrates, chlorides, sulfates, acetates, fluorides, phosphates etc.
What kinds of salt is there?
If you think to table salt this is sodium chloride, NaCl.
Why are salts sometimes given as chloride?
Only some salts are chlorides; but salts are also nitrates, chlorates, acetates, benzoates, phosphates, sulfates etc.
Do non silicate minerals have oxygen?
Many do. Oxygen containing minerals include sulfates, carbonates, nitrates, phosphates, oxides, hydroxides, and a few other varieties.
