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Scientists Discover Tree That Can Make Gold
A Norway spruce (Picea abies) tree. Credit: Neptuul / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0 Researchers in Finland have discovered that Norway spruce (Picea abies) trees can produce tiny gold particles within their needles due to the bacteria living within them. The finding, published Aug. 28 in the journal Environmental Microbiome, reveals that certain microbes can transform dissolved gold absorbed through a tree’s roots into solid nanoparticles. Th…
What seemed impossible was confirmed in northern Finland. Researchers found gold particles inside Norwegian spruce needles, just over a known deposit. The discovery not only surprises with the presence of metal in plant tissue, but also with the process that makes it possible: bacteria living inside the leaves transform liquid gold into solid particles.The study, carried out by the University of Oulu together with the Finnish Geological Survey, …
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