Structure- and property-activity relationship models for prediction of microbial toxicity of organic chemicals to activated sludge

Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 112-119

  Nirmalakhandan, N ^a   Egemen, E ^a   Trevizo, C ^a   Xu, S ^a  

^a New Mexico State Univ   (United States)

Author keywords

Activated sludge; Microbial toxicity; Organic chemicals; Property activity relationship models; Respirometry; Structure activity relationship models; Toxicity predictions

Indexed keywords

OCTANOL; ORGANIC COMPOUND; WATER;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; MICROORGANISM; NONHUMAN; PARTITION COEFFICIENT; PREDICTION; QUANTITATIVE STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; SOLUBILITY; SPIROMETRY; TOXICITY;

EID: 0032005494     PISSN: 01476513     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/eesa.1997.1615     Document Type: Article

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