“…For the goethite and HA-goethite complex systems, peak intensities declined compared with the spectrum of mineral-free bacterial cells on ZnSe, probably owing to the presences of mineral suspensions ( Figures 3B,C ). Compared to the HA-goethite complex system, more adsorption bands were observed in the range of 1800–1000 cm -1 in the goethite system, which due likely to the formation of chemical bonds between the catabolic intermediates of MP (i.e., paraoxon, dimethylthiophosphoric acid, p -nitrophenol, 4-nitrocatechol, and 1,2,4-benzenetriol) and Fe or hydroxyl groups on the surface of goethite ( Figures 3B,C ; Rani and Lalithakumari, 1994 ; Pakala et al, 2007 ; Tiwari et al, 2017a , b ). For example, the emerging bands at 1106 and 1071 cm -1 were reported earlier from IR spectra of P adsorbed on Fe oxides ( Tejedortejedor and Anderson, 1990 ; Hong et al, 2016 ).…”