The use of Selenastrum capricomutum growth potential as a measure of toxicity of a few selected compounds

Water SA

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 183-191

  Van Der Heever, J A ^a   Grobbelaar, J U ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE FREE STATE   (South Africa)

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