TABLE 3.
Reductive dechlorination of trichlorobenzenes to dichlorobenzenes (DCB) and reduction of sulfate to sulfide after 14 days of incubation in cultures supplied with different concentrations of sulfate and molybdatea
| Initial sulfate concn (mM) | Analysis with initial molybdate concn (mM) of:
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| 0
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1
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3
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| DCB (%) | Sulfide (mM) | DCB (%) | Sulfide (mM) | DCB (%) | Sulfide (mM) | |
| 0 | 99.5 | 0.0 | 0.6 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.0 |
| 1 | 100.0 | 1.0 | 99.1 | 0.0 | 0.4 | 0.0 |
| 3 | 5.2 | 2.5 | 96.0 | 0.0 | 0.4 | 0.0 |
a
Means of triplicate cultures; standard deviations were below 10%.