Three kinds of aerobic bacteria induced mineralization of calcium carbonate Calcium carbonate mineralization induced by three kinds of aerobic bacteria

Li Fu-Chun1, Guo Wen-Wen1, 2

Journal of Nanjing University(Natural Sciences) ›› 2013, Vol. 49 ›› Issue (6) : 665.

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Journal of Nanjing University(Natural Sciences) ›› 2013, Vol. 49 ›› Issue (6) : 665.

Three kinds of aerobic bacteria induced mineralization of calcium carbonate Calcium carbonate mineralization induced by three kinds of aerobic bacteria

  • Li Fu-Chun1, Guo Wen-Wen1, 2
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Studying on the ability of microbially-induced mineralization for carbonate has important significance to understand the mechanism of carbonate mineralization by microbe. Bacterially-induced mineralization of calcium carbonate not only relates to the genius of bacteria, but also to the physical and chemical conditions. Thus, the requisite precondition for contrastive studying on the mineralization abilities of different microbe is that the set of experiment need to be carried out under the same experimental conditions. However, contrastive works about the abilities of different microbe in respect of carbonate mineralization are rarely involved in the current studies. The related knowledge mainly obtained at the experimental condition (especially the medium components) which was chosen according to the microbial type. In order to comparative studying on the biomineralization capacity of different bacteria and their influence on the mineral species and morphologies, was performed a batch of experiments with a duration of 40 days in B4 medium under the mediation of three kinds of aerobic bacteria—Bacillus cereus (strain GW-1), Lysinibacillus sp. (strain GW-2) and Microbacterium sp. (strain GW-3) isolated from the same soil. Precipitate quantities, pH value and conductivity of the medium were determined, and the morphologies of precipitated carbonates were observed using scanning electron microscopy and mineral species of calcium carbonate were determined by X-ray diffraction. The mainly results are as follows: (1) All three bacterial strains might induce precipitate of calcium carbonate, the mineralization ability is in sequence of GW-2 > GW-1 > GW-3; (2) The autolysis of bacteria cell could increase the pH value of the medium; (3) Strain GW-1 induced the formation of calcite with square dipyramid shape and strain GW-2 induced hemispherical calcite, while strain GW-3 mediated the formation of spherical vaterite. In addition, also was discussed the essential process of bacterially-induced mineralization of carbonate in the paper. The authors consider that organic nitrogen transformed into NH4+ by bacteria in metabolism process and autolysis of dead bacteria might be the main processes of causing pH increasing and carbonate precipitation. The important approach is that organic carbon converted to precipitation of inorganic carbon attributed to the CO2 producing by bacterial respiration and subsequent chemical processes.

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Li Fu-Chun1, Guo Wen-Wen1, 2. Three kinds of aerobic bacteria induced mineralization of calcium carbonate Calcium carbonate mineralization induced by three kinds of aerobic bacteria[J]. Journal of Nanjing University(Natural Sciences), 2013, 49(6): 665

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