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dc.contributor.author | Lotufo, Guilherme R. | - |
dc.contributor.author | Farrar, J. Daniel | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-07-31T19:41:55Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2018-07-31T19:41:55Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2018-07 | - |
dc.identifier.govdoc | ERDC/EL SR-18-7 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11681/27971 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://dx.doi.org/10.21079/11681/27971 | - |
dc.description | Special Report | en_US |
dc.description.abstract | This document provides a standard method for assessing the aquatic toxicity of insensitive munitions (IM) compounds using the freshwater amphipod Hyalella azteca. The endpoints for the static-renewal test are survival, growth and offspring production. The chronic exposure is conducted for 35 or 42 days at 23 ± 1 °C in 300 mL glass beakers containing 200 mL of test solution. Juvenile amphipods are exposed to decreasing concentrations of IM compounds (e.g., 100%, 50%, 25%, 12.5%, and 6% of the highest concentration) and to a negative control. For each concentration, eight replicate beakers, each containing ten H. azteca are used. Test solutions are renewed three times a week. Water quality parameters are measured at the start, during, and at test termination. The tests are only valid if the mean survival, growth, and reproduction for the control treatment are 80%, 0.35 mg dry weight/individual, and three young/female, respectively, or greater. Instructions and requirements are provided for handling H. azteca before and during the toxicity test, preparing aqueous mixtures, initiating and terminating chronic tests, maintaining appropriate test conditions, making necessary observations and water quality measurements, assessing the survival, growth and reproductive endpoints, and obtaining samples for chemical analysis. | en_US |
dc.description.sponsorship | Prepared for Headquarters, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers under Project 398708, "Environmental Fate in the Life Cycle Analysis of New Materials" | en_US |
dc.description.sponsorship | Environmental Quality and Technology Research Program (U.S.) | - |
dc.description.tableofcontents | Abstract ii Preface iv Acronyms v 1 Introduction 1 1.1 Background 1 1.2 Scope 2 2 Materials and Apparatus 3 3 Procedure 4 4 Reporting and Analysis 9 4.1 Reporting test results 9 4.2 Analysis of results 9 4.3 Quality Assurance (QA)/Quality Control (QC) considerations 10 4.3.1 Acceptability of test results 10 4.3.2 Test organism 10 4.3.3 Water quality 10 References 12 Report Documentation Page | - |
dc.format.extent | 20 pages / 982.0Kb | - |
dc.format.medium | PDF/A | - |
dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
dc.publisher | Environmental Laboratory (U.S.) | en_US |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | Special Report (Environmental Laboratory (U.S.));no.ERDC/EL SR-18-7 | - |
dc.rights | Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited | - |
dc.source | This Digital Resources was created in Microsoft Word and Adobe Acrobat. | - |
dc.subject | Explosives, Military--Toxicity testing | en_US |
dc.subject | Water--Toxicology | en_US |
dc.subject | Aquatic organisms | en_US |
dc.subject | Hyalella Azteca | en_US |
dc.title | Assessing the Chronic and Sublethal Aquatic Toxicity of Insensitive Munitions (IM) Compounds Using Aqueous Exposures with the Amphipod Hyalella Azteca : Scientific Operating Procedure Series : Characterization of IMX Ecotoxicological Effects | en_US |
dc.type | Report | - |
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