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RECORD NUMBER: 44 OF 134| Main Title | Environmental Distribution and Metabolic Fate of Key Industrial Pollutants and Pesticides in a Model Ecosystem. | |||||||||||
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| Author | Metcal, Robert L. ; L, Po-Yung ; Kapoo, Inder P. ; | |||||||||||
| CORP Author | Illinois Univ., Urbana. Water Resources Center. | |||||||||||
| Year Published | 1973 | |||||||||||
| Report Number | WRC-RR-69; DI-14-31-0001-3273; OWRR-B-050-ILL; 01655,; B-050-ILL(1) | |||||||||||
| Stock Number | PB-225 479 | |||||||||||
| Additional Subjects | Organic wastes ; Chemical industry ; Biodeterioration ; Pesticides ; Water pollution ; Industrial wastes ; Methodology ; Toxicity ; Food chains ; Carbamates ; Organic phosphates ; Statistical data ; Models ; Solubility ; Isotopic labeling ; Plasticizers ; Chlorine organic compounds ; Phthalates ; Accumulation ; Food chains ; Ecosystems ; Path of pollutants ; Biphenyl/chloro | |||||||||||
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| Collation | 102p | |||||||||||
| Abstract | The contamination of water supplies with toxic substances liberated into the environment either accidentally as industrial or household wastes or purposefully as pesticides and food additives is an important problem in environmental quality. Radiolabeled contaminants used in a laboratory model ecosystem provide an elegant method for determining the degradative fate of potential pollutants, indications of their toxic effects to a variety of food chain organisms, and measurement of their ecological magnification in food chain organisms. The results have been expressed in terms of ecological magnification and biodegradability index, and have been examined for correlation with such physio-chemical properties as water solubility, and partion coefficient, and for relationships to electron distribution. (Modified author abstract) |