Use of powdered coconut charcoal as a toxicity identification and evaluation manipulation for organic toxicants in marine sediments

Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

Volumn 23, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 2124-2131

  Ho, Kay T ^a   Burgess, Robert M ^a   Pelletier, Marguerite C ^a   Serbst, Jonathan R ^a   Cook, Howard ^a   Cantwell, Mark G ^a   Ryba, Stephen A ^a   Perron, Monique M ^a   Lebo, Jon ^b   Huckins, James ^b   Petty, Jimmie ^b  

^a U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

^b Midwest Science Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Coconut charcoal; Organic toxicants; Sediments; Toxicity identification evaluation

Indexed keywords

CHARCOAL; EVALUATION; PLANTS (BOTANY); POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS; TOXIC MATERIALS;

METAL-SPIKED SEDIMENTS; TOXICITY IDENTIFICATION;

SEDIMENTS;

CHARCOAL; ENDOSULFAN; METAL; ORGANIC COMPOUND; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBON;

CHARCOAL; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; MARINE SEDIMENT; SEDIMENT POLLUTION; SEQUESTRATION (CHEMISTRY); TOXICITY;

ADAPTATION; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BIOAVAILABILITY; COCONUT; CONTAMINATION; EVALUATION; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEDIMENT; SUPERCRITICAL FLUID EXTRACTION; TOXICITY TESTING; WATERSHED;

ADSORPTION; AMMONIA; AMPHIPODA; ANIMALS; CHARCOAL; COCOS; CRUSTACEA; ENDOSULFAN; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; METALS; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; RESINS, SYNTHETIC; WASTE MANAGEMENT; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 3943084949     PISSN: 07307268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1897/03-407     Document Type: Article

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