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extremely specific in their source of reduced compounds. Thus, despite the diversity in using inorganic compounds that lithoautotrophs exhibit as a group, one particular lithoautotroph would use only one type of inorganic molecule to get its energy. A chemolithotrophic example is anaerobic ammonia oxidizing bacteria (anammox), which use ammonia and nitrite to produce dinitrogen (N₂). Additionally, in July 2020, researchers reported the discovery of chemolithoautotrophic

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