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Fermentation turns greenhouse gases into useful chemicals

10 Mar 2022 Dan O'Brien 
In the fermentation lab
In the lab: researchers work to optimize the fermentation-based production of acetone and IPA (Courtesy: M Köpke/LanzaTech)
A carbon-negative process that produces industrial-scale quantities of acetone and isopropanol has b

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