Ecotoxicological studies on Hungarian peloids (medicinal muds)

Applied Clay Science

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 47-50

  Gerencsér, Gellért ^a   Murányi, Edit ^a   Szendi, Katalin ^a   Varga, Csaba ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PÉCS   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Ecotoxicology; Eisenia test; Medicinal mud; White mustard seedling growth test

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL TOXICITY; ECO-TOXICOLOGY; ECOTOXICOLOGICAL STUDY; EISENIA; GEOTHERMAL GRADIENTS; HUNGARIANS; HUNGARY; MASS GROWTH; MEDICINAL MUD; NATURAL PRODUCTS; REPRODUCTIVE CAPACITY; ROOT LENGTH; SEEDLING GROWTH; TOXICOLOGICAL EFFECTS;

ECOLOGY; FORESTRY; TOXICITY;

TESTING;

ECOTOXICOLOGY; GEOTHERMAL GRADIENT; MUD; SEEDLING;

HUNGARY;

SINAPIS ALBA;

EID: 77957021070     PISSN: 01691317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clay.2010.06.022     Document Type: Article

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