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Old 11-21-2007, 02:13 AM
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If it wasn't the rock, what else would it be? Well, OK, actually, I'll say that I don't think it's the rock, but my understanding has always been that the rock is a convenient "container" for the anaerobic bacterial strains that do the denitrification. Other things can shelter those species of bacteria just as well but rock is one of them. Continuing this line of reasoning, I think that some rock is better than others at harbouring bacteria than others, and, I think you can have an event which causes you to lose bacteria and thus remove or deminish a rock's ability to perform denitrification (but conversely, I think that rock can also thus be renewed).
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