Comparative and mixture sediment toxicity of trinitrotoluene and its major transformation products to a freshwater midge

Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 333-342

  Lotufo, Guilherme R ^a   Farrar, J Daniel ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NITROBENZENE DERIVATIVE; TRINITROTOLUENE;

FRESHWATER ENVIRONMENT; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEDIMENT POLLUTION; TOXICITY; TRINITROTOLUENE;

ARTICLE; BIOTRANSFORMATION; CHIRONOMIDAE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEGRADATION KINETICS; DRY WEIGHT; ECOTOXICOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; LETHALITY; NONHUMAN; PARTICLE SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEDIMENT; SOIL ANALYSIS; SOIL POLLUTION; TOXICITY TESTING; WATER CONTAMINATION;

ANIMALS; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; CHIRONOMIDAE; FRESH WATER; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; LETHAL DOSE 50; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PHOTOLYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; TRINITROBENZENES; TRINITROTOLUENE; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

CHIRONOMUS TENTANS; CHIRONOMUS THUMMI;

EID: 25644449593     PISSN: 00904341     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00244-004-0213-y     Document Type: Article

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