... altered
test
responses.
Numerous
classes of organic
compounds
were
found
to
be
highly toxic
and
teratogenic to
developmental
stages of
fish.
Of
eleven
compounds
tested, those
which
proved
most
toxic to eggs,
embryos,
and
early ... organic
compounds
and
provided
fish embryo-larval toxicity data for a
number
of important classes of organic trace contaminants.
Chem...
... no
surprise that aged chemicals are resistant to degradation
compared to freshly added chemicals (25, 27, 97, 98) and
that degradation of freshly added chemicals often tails off
to leave a resistant ... 06504-1106
The use of equilibrium expressions for sorption to
natural particles in fate and transport models is often
invalid due to slow kinetics. This paper reviews
recen...
... low toxicity to crustaceans. However, it is moderately toxic to algae
(LC
50
ca. 20 to 30 mg/L) and acutely toxic to fish, such as salmon (LC
50
s on the order of
Literature Review of Organic ... <3.3). Due to their specific mode of action (plant hormone), they have low
toxicity to fish and crustacea (EC
50
>>100 mg/L) and moderate toxicity to alg...
... into hexane, and processed through col-
umns containing 300 milligrams (mg) of silica gel to remove
color and any precipitate. A total of 10 mL of hexane was
used to transfer the samples to ... feature of the EAF is that it is relatively
constant for all chemicals that have the same rate-limiting
barrier to uptake, allowing PRC data to be applied to a range
of che...
... factor, which is
equal to the ratio of the volume of this water and the volume of the pores in the soil
to be flushed.
The time needed and the amount of water (flush factor) are estimated based ... goal of a field investigation is to determine the extent
of the contamination. In an early stage of the investigation, not much effort is given
to the collection of data t...
... objective is biomonitoring with trees.
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Exposure modeling
To cover the vast amount of chemicals present ubiquitously, predictive tools are needed to
indicate compounds of possible concern ...
Uptake of organic chemicals in plants
Paper II aims at determining the potential for accumulation of organic chemicals from soil in
food crops. Many studies have been perform...
... because
of
the risk
of
EXPLOSION
with acetone vapour.
Organic impurities have been removed from acetone by adding 4g of AgN03 in
3Oml
of water to 1L of acetone,
followed by lOml of M NaOH, ... aqueous EtOH.
Purification
of
Organic Chemicals 69
Aceto-p-toluidide
[103-89-91
M 149.2,
m
146O,
b
307°/760mm.
Crystd from aqueous EtOH.
Acetoxyacetone (acetol aceto...
... so that subsurface monitoring is sufficient to ensure remediation.
The purpose of this chapter is to identify the current state of our capa-
bility to remediate organic chemicals in the vadose ... challenges
to even our most advanced capabilities. This spectrum of outcomes to
the remedial process is a result of the diversity of conditions encoun-
tered at contaminated...
... been developed
to estimate the rate constants for organic chemicals in
fish [15]. This allows us to apply the model to fish, which is
often a biological entity of interest because of the high
trophic ... QSAR
provides estimates of the bioaccumulation potential of
organic chemicals in higher trophic level fish species of
aquatic food webs. The QSAR can be adapted...