A comparison of techniques used to extract solid samples prior to acute toxicity analysis using the microtox test

Environmental Toxicology and Water Quality

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 121-128

  Dombroski, Emil C ^a   Gaudet, Irene D ^a   Zack Florence, L ^a   Qureshi, Ansar A ^b  

^a Alberta Environmental Centre   (Canada)

^b Norwest Labs   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SULFANILAMIDE;

ARTICLE; BIOASSAY; CENTRIFUGATION; EXTRACTION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LEACHING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUSPENDED PARTICULATE MATTER; TOXICITY;

EID: 0029881443     PISSN: 10534725     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2256(1996)11:2<121::AID-TOX7>3.0.CO;2-B     Document Type: Article

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