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- Title
Toxicological Assessment in Tetrahymena of Intermediates in Aerobic Microbial Transformation of Toluene and p-Xylene.
- Authors
Schultz, T. W.; Bryant, S. E.; Kissel, T. S.
- Abstract
The article presents a study on the assessment of toxicity of microbial transformation of aromatic solvents toluene and p-Xylene in relation to hydrophobicity. According to the Toxic Release Inventory issued by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, toluene and xylenes are two of the 300 chemicals released by 20,000 industrial facilities. Their toxicity was evaluated through the static population growth of Tetrahymena pyriformis. Most of them showed toxicities which are directly related to hydrophobicity which revealed that toxicity is interdependent with hydrophobicity. The expected decrease of toxicity was evident by an increase in reactivity due to the formation of quinone.
- Subjects
UNITED States; TOXICITY testing; EXPERIMENTAL toxicology; TOLUENE; XYLENE; AROMATIC compounds; MICROORGANISMS; TETRAHYMENA pyriformis; HAZARDOUS wastes
- Publication
Bulletin of Environmental Contamination & Toxicology, 1996, Vol 56, Issue 1, p129
- ISSN
0007-4861
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s001289900019