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Standard Practice for Using Octanol-Water Partition Coefficient to Estimate Median Lethal Concentrations for Fish Due to Narcosis
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Scope
1.1 This practice covers a procedure for estimating the fathead minnow (
1.2 This procedure is accurate for organic chemicals that are toxic due to narcosis and are non-reactive and non-electrolytic. Examples of appropriate chemicals are: alcohols, ketones, ethers, simple halogenated aliphatics, aromatics, and aliphatic substituted aromatics. It is not appropriate for chemicals whose structures include a potential toxiphore (that structural component of a chemical molecule that has been identified to show mammalian toxicity, for example CN is known to be reponsible for inactivation of enzymes, NO
Keywords
non-ionic; beta-gamma- unsaturated alcohols; ICS Number Code 07.080 (Biology. Botany. Zoology)
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Document Number
ASTM-E1242-88
Revision Level
1988 EDITION
Status
Superseded
Modification Type
Revision
Publication Date
March 25, 1988
Document Type
Practice
Page Count
2 pages
Committee Number
E47.01