Toxicity of octameric elemental sulphur in aquatic sediments

Environmental Chemistry Letters

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 109-112

  Ricking, Mathias ^a   Neumann Hensel, Helga ^a   Schwarzbauer, Jan ^a   Svenson, Anders ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ageing; Microtox toxicity; Octameric elemental sulphur; Sediment toxicity; Speciation

Indexed keywords

EID: 33947604839     PISSN: 16103653     EISSN: 16103661     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10311-004-0083-6     Document Type: Article

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