Effects of water hardness and temperature on the acute toxicity of mercuric chloride on rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss)

Toxicology and Industrial Health

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 499-504

  Terzi, Ertugrul ^a   Verep, Bulent ^a  

^a RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

hardness; Mercuric chloride; rainbow trout; temperature; toxicology

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM CARBONATE; MERCURIC CHLORIDE;

ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONVULSION; LC 50; MERCURIALISM; MUCUS; NONHUMAN; RAINBOW TROUT; RESTLESSNESS; WATER HARDNESS; WATER QUALITY; WATER TEMPERATURE;

ANIMALS; CALCIUM CARBONATE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; LETHAL DOSE 50; MERCURIC CHLORIDE; ONCORHYNCHUS MYKISS; TEMPERATURE; TOXICITY TESTS, ACUTE; WATER; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 84862259396     PISSN: 07482337     EISSN: 14770393     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0748233711416943     Document Type: Article

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