Ack! No matter how careful you are with the formatting, something always seems to go wrong. I quoted from the web page, "Presto! Bacteria Turn Toxic Wastes into Salt Component and Oxygen", http://www.microbe.org/news/perchlorate_microbe.asp.

The quoted passage was supposed to contain this line:

"By adding acetate <ass-ih-tate>
or other cheap carbon sources to soil or water targeted for cleanup,
the researchers were able to kick the bacteria's natural toxic waste
degrading abilities into high gear."

It was supposed to be giving the proper pronuniciation of acetate, but somehow when I copied the post the last two syllables in the angled brackets disappeared.

Bob Clark