Tungsten speciation and toxicity: Acute toxicity of mono- and poly-tungstates to fish

Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety

Volumn 73, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 164-171

  Strigul, Nikolay ^a   Koutsospyros, Agamemnon ^b   Christodoulatos, Christos ^a  

^a Stevens Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAVEN   (United States)

Author keywords

Fish toxicity test; Heavy metals; Polytungstates; Sodium metatungstate; Sodium tungstate; Tungsten ecotoxicology

Indexed keywords

SODIUM METATUNGSTATE; TUNGSTATE SODIUM; TUNGSTEN DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ECOTOXICOLOGY; FISH; MORTALITY; SPECIATION (CHEMISTRY); TOXICITY TEST; TUNGSTEN;

ACUTE TOXICITY; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTAMINATED FISH; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYPRINODONTIFORMES; ECOTOXICOLOGY; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; LD 50; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION REDUCTION POTENTIAL; PH; POECILIA RETICULATE; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; SURVIVAL RATE; WATER QUALITY; WATER TEMPERATURE;

ACUTE TOXICITY TESTS; ANIMALS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FISHES; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; TIME FACTORS; TUNGSTEN; TUNGSTEN COMPOUNDS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

POECILIA;

EID: 70949092039     PISSN: 01476513     EISSN: 10902414     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoenv.2009.08.016     Document Type: Article

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