The effects of ultraviolet-B radiation on the toxicity of fire-fighting chemicals

Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

Volumn 22, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 1525-1531

  Calfee, Robin D ^a   Little, Edward E ^a  

^a Jackson Field Research Station   (United States)

Author keywords

Chemicals Ultraviolet radiation; Fire retardant; Sodium ferrocyanide; Yellow prussiate

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CORROSION INHIBITORS; FLAME RETARDANTS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IRRADIATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

FIRE-RETARDANT FORMULATIONS;

TOXICITY;

AMMONIA; FERROCYANIDE; FLAME RETARDANT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WATER; YELLOW PRUSSIATE OF SODA;

AQUATIC ECOSYSTEM; CHEMICAL POLLUTANT; MORTALITY; TOXICITY; ULTRAVIOLET B RADIATION;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORROSION; ENDANGERED SPECIES; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EVALUATION; FIRE PROTECTION; FROG; LIGHT IRRADIANCE; MORTALITY; MULTIPLE CHEMICAL SENSITIVITY; NONHUMAN; OPTICS; PHOTOACTIVATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAINBOW TROUT; SPECIES; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TADPOLE; TOAD; ULTRAVIOLET B RADIATION; UNITED STATES; WATER QUALITY; ANIMAL; DRUG INTERACTION; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; WATER POLLUTANT;

ANIMALIA; ANURA; BOREAS; BUFO; BUFO BOREAS BOREAS; ONCORHYNCHUS MYKISS; PANTHERA PARDUS; RANA SPHENOCEPHALA; SALMONIDAE;

AMMONIA; ANIMALS; DRUG INTERACTIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FERROCYANIDES; FLAME RETARDANTS; ONCORHYNCHUS MYKISS; RANIDAE; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 0141782668     PISSN: 07307268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1897/1551-5028(2003)22<1525:TEOURO>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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