Scientists have discovered a new type of bacterium that they thought had existed for a long time, but could not prove.
According to Qadin.Net, NTV reported about it.
At the California Institute of Technology in the United States, the answer to a hundred-year-old problem came about by chance.
A group of scientists conducting experiments on manganese have discovered a metal-eating bacterium.
The bacteria are said to feed on metals. One of the scientists of the institute put a glass jar in a bowl in the office. When he returned a few months later, he found the glass jar covered with a dark substance.
Studies have shown that the darkness is oxidized manganese. The bacterium that causes darkening is estimated to be in the water.