Fig. 10
From: Partial Desalination of Saline Irrigation Water Using [FexOy(OH)z(H2O)m)n+/−]
Type A (ST [6]) catalyst examples following desalination. Reflected light. (a) polished section showing halite infilled porosity; Field of view = 0.91 mm; (b) cleaved section showing halite growing from the ASMC into the pores; Field of view = 0.91 mm; (c) detail of halite in the cleaved section showing embedded “doughnut shaped” holdfasts of the filamentous bacteria Leptothrix discophora; Field of view = 0.15 mm