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•POST TESTS CONDUCTED TO DETERMINE WHAT BIOMASS WAS STILL ALIVE AFTER
10 DAY LIQUID MEDIA PERIOD.
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-EXAMPLE: BATCH 2/CYCLE 1:
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-THIOBACILLUS WAS ALIVE IN THE SAMPLES THAT DROPPED THE PH.
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-ALL LIVE SAMPLES IN CYCLE 1 DROPPED PH CONSIDERABLY, EXCEPT
THE SAMPLE WITH 10 G/L [SULFUR] (TOXIC AMOUNT OF SULFUR).
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-ALL CONTROLS HAD STEADY PH.
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•EXAMPLE: BATCH2/CYCLE 2:(pH)
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-FINAL PH – INITIAL PH FROM BEGINNING OF CYCLE 1 TO END OF CYCLE
2.
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-SHOWS SAME RESULTS AS BATCH 2/CYCLE 1, EXCEPT THAT THE SAMPLE
WITH 10 G/L [SULFUR] DROPPED IN PH IN CYCLE 2.
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-MOST DROP IN PH WAS IN THE SAMPLE WITH TEMPERATURE OF 35C,
WHICH IS NOT THE STANDARD TEMPERATURE (30C).
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-THE 2ND HIGHEST DROP IN PH WAS IN SAMPLE WITH 0.5
G/L [SULFUR], WHICH IS NOT THE STANDARD SULFUR CONCENTRATION (5 G/L).
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-EXAMPLE: BATCH2/CYCLE
2:(ABS.)
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-SHOWS GROWTH OF HETEROTROPHIC BACTERIA (ENERGY SOURCE ORGANIC
CARBON), SUCH AS ADICIPHILIUM, IN LIVE SAMPLES.
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-CONTROLS REMAINED STEADY AROUND ZERO AS EXPECTED.
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-MOST GROWTH IN SAMPLE WITH ONLY 0.5 G/L [SULFUR], WHICH IS NOT
THE STANDARD SULFUR CONCENTRATION (5 G/L)
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