Acute toxicity of fire-retardant and foam-suppressant chemicals to early life stages of chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha)

Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

Volumn 17, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 1589-1599

  Buhl, Kevin J ^a   Hamilton, Steven J ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acute toxicity; Chinook salmon; Fire retardants; Fire suppressant foams

Indexed keywords

FLAME RETARDANT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FIRE PROTECTION; HAZARDOUS WASTE; NONHUMAN; ONCORHYNCHUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALMON; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER HARDNESS; WATER QUALITY;

EID: 0031830030     PISSN: 07307268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1897/1551-5028(1998)017<1589:ATOFRA>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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