Bioprecipitation of Calcium Carbonate Crystals by Bacteria Isolated from Saline Environments Grown in Culture Media Amended with Seawater and Real Brine

Table 2

Ionic composition (mg/L) of different solid and liquid media used in this study. The liquid medium used in the experiment was SM2 medium which was inoculated with strain M3 (Bacillus marisflavi) or strain S3 (Virgibacillus pantothenticus).

Compounds	Solid medium							Liquid medium
	M1	SM1	SM2	SM3	SM4	SM5	SM6	M3	S3
Ca^+2	1040	770	770	770	770	770	770	556	535
Mg^+2	890	2340	2340	2340	2340	2340	2340	213	103
Na^+	756	11800	11800	11800	11800	11800	11800	11800	11800
K^+	260	450	450	450	450	450	450	450	450
	1910	3166	3166	3166	3166	3166	3166	3166	3166
Cl^−	1504	21100	21100	21100	21100	21100	21100	21100	21100
TC	6484	6484	4863	2386	2003	2920	3333	1828	1678
	1728	1728	1296	651	434	642	642	487	447
P	150	150	112	90	60	0	0	42	39
pH	8.4	8.2	8.1	8.0	8.2	8.1	8.0	7.9	7.8

TC: total carbon.