| complete reduction of tellurite to pure tellurium metal by microorganisms. | tucker, fayne l. (university of southern california, los angeles), john f. walper, milo don appleman, and jerry donohue. complete reduction of tellurite to pure tellurium metal by microorganisms. j. bacteriol. 83:1313-1314. 1962-the black precipitate produced in the presence of potassium tellurite by growing cells of streptococcus faecalis n83 and corynebacterium diphtheriae was shown, by x-ray diffraction analysis, to consist of metallic tellurium. the metal was not complexed, to any significan ... | 1962 | 13922991 |