Toxicity of elemental sulfur in sediments

Environmental Toxicology and Water Quality

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 217-224

  Svenson, Anders ^a   Viktor, Tomas ^a   Remberger, Mikael ^a  

^a IVL SWEDISH ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Aquatic toxicity; Elemental sulfur; Fish toxicity; Microtox; Sediment; TIE

Indexed keywords

METHANOL; ORGANIC SOLVENT; SULFUR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ECOTOXICOLOGY; FISH; LARVA; LUMINESCENCE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION REDUCTION POTENTIAL; PAPER INDUSTRY; PARTICULATE MATTER; PERCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULP MILL; SEDIMENT; SOLUBILITY; WATER POLLUTION; ZEBRA FISH;

EID: 0031710688     PISSN: 10534725     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2256(1998)13:3<217::AID-TOX3>3.0.CO;2-A     Document Type: Article

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