Comparison of Bacterial Luminescence and Fish Bioassay Results for Fossil-Fuel Process Waters and Phenolic Constituents / ME. Lebsack, AD. Anderson, GM. DeGraeve, HL. Bergman
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- Aquatic Toxicology and Hazard Assessment (1979 : Chicago, Ill.)
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- 1 online resource (9 pages) : illustrations, figures, tables
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- Anderson, AD., Bergman, HL., DeGraeve, GM., Lebsack, ME., American Society for Testing and Materials, and ASTM International
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- A number of fossil-fuel process waters and some phenolic constituents were tested in a luminescent bacterial system, and the results were compared with either static or flow-through acute bioassays with fish. Luminescence was decreased in a concentration-dependent manner after the addition of an oil shale process water. The concentration causing 50 percent inhibition of luminescence (EC50) was reproducibly determined for all the tested waters and compounds. The EC50 values for a group of fossil-fuel process waters correlated with 96-h rainbow trout flow-through median lethal concentrations (LC50s) but not with 96-h flow-through LC50s for fathead minnows. For another group of process waters, the EC50s for luminescence inhibition had a significant correlation to static 24-h LC50s with fathead minnows. Both rainbow trout and fathead minnow LC50s were lower than luminescence EC50s for the phenolic compounds. Inhibition of bacterial luminescence may be of value in predicting the toxicity of complex effluents to aquatic biota, especially when semicontinuous monitoring is required. However, in each case the bacterial bioluminescence assay should be calibrated periodically with acute bioassays using aquatic biota.
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- Volume 1981, Issue 737 (January 1981)
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- 0803107994
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