Microbiological degradation hydrocarbons

Because hydrocarbons, especially n-alkanes, in aqueous solution are susceptible to microbiological degradation, surrogate samples were used in the interlaboratory comparison. All participants were requested to prepare water samples from the solutions listed in Table 1 according to... 

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The saturated hydrocarbon moieties give lipids an aliphatic character, and thus hydro-phobic properties, which limit their loss from artefacts by water leaching. However, they are subject to chemical and microbiological alterations since they have a limited number of reactive sites, they are relatively less susceptible to structural modification and degradation than polysaccharides, proteins and nucleotides. 

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