Magnitude of acute toxicity of marine sediments amended with conventional copper and nanocopper.
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PROVIDER: S-EPMC6192042 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Oct
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Magnitude of acute toxicity of marine sediments amended with conventional copper and nanocopper.
Parks Ashley N AN Cashman Michaela A MA Perron Monique M MM Portis Lisa L Cantwell Mark G MG Katz David R DR Ho Kay T KT Burgess Robert M RM
Environmental toxicology and chemistry 20180828 10
It is well known that copper (Cu) is toxic to marine organisms. We measured and compared the acute toxicity of several forms of Cu (including nanoCu) amended into a marine sediment with mysids and amphipods. For all the forms of Cu tested, toxicity, measured as the median lethal concentration, ranged from 708 to > 2400 mg Cu/kg (dry sediment) for mysids and 258 to 1070 mg Cu/kg (dry sediment) for amphipods. Environ Toxicol Chem 2018;37:2677-2681. © 2018 SETAC. This article is a US government wor ...[more]
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