Ecotoxicity of selected nano-materials to aquatic organisms

Environmental Toxicology

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 591-598

  Blaise, C ^a   Gagne F ^a   Ferard J F ^b   Eullaffroy, P ^c  

^a ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^b Faculté des Sciences et Technologies   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE REIMS CHAMPAGNE ARDENNE   (France)

Author keywords

Aquatic toxicity; Behavior in sediments; Decomposers; Metallic nanomaterials; Organic nanomaterials; Primary consumers; Primary producers; Secondary consumers

Indexed keywords

ALKALINE EARTH METALS; AQUACULTURE; ASSAYS; CARBON NANOTUBES; COPPER; COPPER OXIDES; CRYSTALS; ERBIUM; FULLERENES; HOLMIUM; INDIUM; IRON; METALLIC COMPOUNDS; NANOSTRUCTURES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NICKEL; NICKEL OXIDE; OFFSHORE OIL WELL PRODUCTION; ORGANIC CARBON; OXIDES; POWDERS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK MANAGEMENT; SAFETY ENGINEERING; SAMARIUM; SEDIMENTATION; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN); SOLUTIONS; STRONTIUM; SUGAR (SUCROSE); TECHNOLOGY; TESTING; TIN; TIN DIOXIDE; TITANIUM; TITANIUM COMPOUNDS; TITANIUM DIOXIDE; TITANIUM OXIDES; TOXIC MATERIALS; TOXICITY; YTTRIUM; YTTRIUM OXIDE; ZINC;

AQUATIC LIFE; AQUATIC ORGANISMS; AQUATIC TOXICITY; AQUEOUS SOLUTIONS; BEHAVIOR IN SEDIMENTS; CERTIFIED REFERENCE MATERIAL; DECOMPOSERS; DIFFERENT MODES; ECOTOXICITY; ERBIUM OXIDES; FULLERENE; HOLMIUM OXIDE; HYDRA ATTENUATA; INDIUM TIN OXIDE; METALLIC NANOMATERIALS; NANO-MATERIALS; NANO-POWDERS; ORGANIC NANOMATERIALS; PRIMARY CONSUMERS; PRIMARY PRODUCERS; SAMARIUM OXIDES; SECONDARY CONSUMERS; SEDIMENT TOXICITY; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBE; SOLID-PHASE; STRONTIUM FERRITES; TAXONOMIC GROUPS; THREE ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; TOXIC ACTION; TOXICITY DATA; WATER COLUMN; WIDE SPECTRUM;

IRON OXIDES;

COPPER; ERBIUM; FERRITE; FULLERENE; HOLMIUM; INDIUM; IRON; NANOMATERIAL; NICKEL; OXIDE; SAMARIUM; SINGLE WALLED NANOTUBE; STRONTIUM; TITANIUM; YTTRIUM; ZINC;

AQUEOUS SOLUTION; BACTERIUM; BIOASSAY; ECOTOXICOLOGY; INVERTEBRATE; OXIDE; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEDIMENT POLLUTION; TOXICITY TEST;

AQUATIC SPECIES; AQUEOUS SOLUTION; BIOASSAY; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECOMPOSER; ECOTOXICITY; FISH; HYDRA ATTENUATA; INVERTEBRATE; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; THAMNOPLATYURUS PLATYURUS;

ACUTE TOXICITY TESTS; ALGAE; ANIMALS; ANOSTRACA; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; HEPATOCYTES; HYDRA; METAL NANOPARTICLES; ONCORHYNCHUS MYKISS; TOXICITY TESTS, CHRONIC; VIBRIO FISCHERI; WATER POLLUTANTS;

ALGAE; HYDRA VULGARIS; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 51949091582     PISSN: 15204081     EISSN: 15227278     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/tox.20402     Document Type: Conference Paper

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