Bacterial Treatment and Metal Characterization of Biomedical Waste Ash

Table 1

Growth of microbes on different metal concentrations in nutrient broth (NB).

S. number	Metals	Isolate I				Isolate II
		10 mg/L	25 mg/L	50 mg/L	75 mg/L	10 mg/L	25 mg/L	50 mg/L	75 mg/L
(1)	Fe	1.547	0.652	0.78	0.685	1.474	0.593	0.987	1.23
(2)	Mn	0.877	0.690	1.12	0.550	0.876	0.406	0.023	0.299
(3)	Hg	0.823	0.799	0.338	0.002	0.563	0.304	0.045	1.007
(4)	Mo	0.721	0.024	0.09	0.103	0.721	0.801	0.198	1.065
(5)	Cu	1.117	1.216	0.567	0.008	1.117	1.061	0.43	0.098
(6)	Zn	0.805	0.634	0.118	0.112	0.417	0.443	0.245	0.23
(7)	Cr	0.221	0.429	0.765	0.089	0.224	0.068	0.098	0.652
(8)	Pb	0.867	0.345	0.654	0.098	0.543	0.652	0.008	0.439
(9)	Al	0.707	0.265	0.932	1.118	0.763	0.617	0.465	0.102
(10)	Ag	0.654	0.234	1.09	0.834	0.943	0.843	0.005	0.174

^#All values are in optical density (OD) at 600 nm.