Acute and chronic aquatic toxicity structure-activity relationships for alcohol ethoxylates

Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 381-389

  Morrall, D D ^a   Belanger, S E ^a   Dunphy, J C ^a  

^a PROCTER AND GAMBLE COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acute toxicity; Alcohol ethoxylate; Chronic toxicity; Daphnia magna; Mesocosm; Structure activity relationships

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL DERIVATIVE; ALKYL GROUP; NONIONIC SURFACTANT; WATER;

CHEMICAL POLLUTANT; ECOTOXICOLOGY; SURFACTANT; TOXICITY TEST;

ACUTE TOXICITY; ANALYTIC METHOD; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CHRONIC TOXICITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAPHNIA; EFFLUENT; EXPOSURE; MESOCOSM; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; TOXICITY TESTING;

CLADOCERA; DAPHNIA; DAPHNIA MAGNA;

EID: 0142217911     PISSN: 01476513     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0147-6513(02)00088-X     Document Type: Article

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