Clostridium acetobutylicum
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clostridium-acetobutylicum-232-3027945
title:
Clostridium acetobutylicum
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Clostridium acetobutylicum, ATCC 824, is a commercially valuable bacterium sometimes called the "Weizmann Organism", after Jewish Russian-born biochemist Chaim Weizmann. A senior lecturer at the University of Manchester, England, he used them in 1916 as a bio-chemical tool to produce at the same time, jointly, acetone, ethanol, and n-butanol from starch. The method has been described since as the ABE process,, yielding 3 parts of acetone, 6 of n-butanol, and 1 of ethanol. Acetone was used in the
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Species of bacterium
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clostridium_acetobutylicum
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date modified:
2023-10-25T23:18:19Z
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