Nanoparticles in wastewater treatment plants: a novel acute toxicity test for ciliates and its implementation in risk assessment

Environmental Science and Pollution Research

Volumn 22, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 7485-7494

  Burkart, Corinna ^a   von Tümpling, Wolf ^b   Berendonk, Thomas ^a   Jungmann, Dirk ^a  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ciliates; Silver nanoparticles; Toxicity; Wastewater treatment plant

Indexed keywords

METAL NANOPARTICLE; SEWAGE; SILVER; WASTE WATER; WATER POLLUTANT;

ANALYSIS; CILIATE; DEVICES; DRUG EFFECTS; EVALUATION STUDY; PROCEDURES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEWAGE; THEORETICAL MODEL; TOXICITY; TOXICITY TESTING; WASTE WATER; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER POLLUTANT;

CILIOPHORA; METAL NANOPARTICLES; MODELS, THEORETICAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEWAGE; SILVER; TOXICITY TESTS, ACUTE; WASTE WATER; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER PURIFICATION;

EID: 84938943515     PISSN: 09441344     EISSN: 16147499     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11356-014-4057-3     Document Type: Article

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