Table 2.
pH measured of series of dilutions of wood leachate with control medium to algae after exposure for 72 h and the mean and SD values (n = 3).
| Concentration of leachate (% v/v) | pH |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Name of wood leachate | |||||
| Mahogany | Cedrela | Wawa | Emire | Ceiba | |
| Control | 7.3 ± 0.2 | 7.3 ± 0.1 | 7.3 ± 0.2 | 7.3 ± 0.2 | 7.3 ± 0.2 |
| 20 | 6.6 ± 0.1 | 8.4 ± 0.2 | 9.0 ± 0.2 | 7.2 ± 0.1 | 11.2 ± 0.1 |
| 30 | 6.4 ± 0.2 | 9.5 ± 0.1 | 8.8 ± 0.1 | 7.1 ± 0.2 | 11.1 ± 0.1 |
| 45 | 6.4 ± 0.1 | 9.7 ± 0.2 | 8.7 ± 0.2 | 6.8 ± 0.1 | 10.2 ± 0.1 |
| 67 | 6.3 ± 0.2 | 8.6 ± 0.2 | 8.5 ± 0.2 | 6.7 ± 0.1 | 9.0 ± 0.1 |
| 100 | 5.0 ± 0.1 | 7.4 ± 0.1 | 8.3 ± 0.1 | 4.7 ± 0.2 | 8.9 ± 0.2 |