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Wetting sterilized soil released methanol and formaldehyde with no microbes present
Heidelberg chemists report that iron and reactive oxygen species cleave lignin's methoxy groups into methanol and then formaldehyde at room temperature in water. In living soil, microbes eat the methanol before it can reach the air.
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