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Electron micrograph of the microorganism Methanococcus voltae grown with pyrite. The pyrite grains are attached to coccoid cells that have extracellular appendages that connect the cells to each other. Scale bar is 200 nanometers.
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Image courtesy of the Imaging and Chemical Analysis Laboratory, Montana State University.
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