Recommendations for the assessment of TNT toxicity in sediment

Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 141-149

  Conder, Jason M ^a   La Point, Thomas W ^a   Steevens, Jeffery A ^b   Lotufo, Guilherme R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS   (United States)

^b US ARMY ENGINEER RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Bioavailability; Degradation; Explosives; Nitroaromatics; Tubifex tubifex

Indexed keywords

DEGRADATION; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; SEDIMENTS;

MASS BALANCE; TOXICITY TESTS;

TOXIC MATERIALS;

AROMATIC NITRO COMPOUND; EXPLOSIVE; TRINITROTOLUENE; WATER;

BENTHIC INFAUNA; BIOAVAILABILITY; BIODEGRADATION; EXPLOSIVE; SEDIMENT POLLUTION; TOXICITY;

ANNELID WORM; ARTICLE; BIOAVAILABILITY; BIODEGRADATION; ECOTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFERENCE VALUE; SEDIMENT; TIME; TOXICITY TESTING;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL AVAILABILITY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; OLIGOCHAETA; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TRINITROTOLUENE;

ANNELIDA; TUBIFEX TUBIFEX; TUBIFICIDAE;

EID: 0346098283     PISSN: 07307268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1897/03-137     Document Type: Article

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