“Saline as an electrolyte?”
Yes. They actively pump protons across their cell membrane.
Here’s a link to too much information:
https://jb.asm.org/content/jb/175/6/1555.full.pdf
Right on, thank you!
Always interested in these things, other than the normal everyday influences of bacteria, I have been into processing gold as a hobby since I was a kid. Found something interesting about gold and other heavy metals and bacteria about 5 years ago that I would like to play with someday for extracting.
https://phys.org/news/2018-02-bacteria-gold-digesting-toxic-metals.html