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Assessing toxic risk /
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Arlington, Va. :
NSTA Press,
©2001.
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| Edición: | Student ed. |
| Colección: | Cornell scientific inquiry series.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- section 1. Understanding toxic risk
- ch. 1. The dose makes the poison
- Any chemical can be toxic
- Are natural chemicals safer
- How much is too much
- Dose/response bioassays
- Comparing chemical toxicities
- Long-term versus short-term toxicity
- Testing chronic toxicity
- Conclusion
- For discussion
- Toxicity calculations
- ch. 2. From data to standards
- Setting drinking water standards
- From data to standards
- For discussion
- ch 3. What's the risk
- How safe is safe enough
- What are the trade-offs
- One risk versus another
- Risk versus cost
- For discussion
- ch. 4. Ecological risks
- Effects of chemical properties
- Testing environmental impacts of new compounds
- For discussion
- ch. 5. Using bioassays for environmental research
- Bioassay species
- Concentration versus dose
- An introduction to experimental design
- Interpreting bioassay results
- For discussion
- References
- section 2. Toxicology protocols : introduction to research
- Toxicology protocols
- Protocol 1 : serial dilutions
- Protocol 2 : dose/response experiments using lettuce seeds
- Protocol 3 : dose/response experiments using duckweed
- Protocol 4 : Dose/response experiments using Daphnia
- Protocol 5 : testing environmental samples using bioassays
- Protocol 6 : preparing water treatment columns
- Protocol 7 : chemical classification of toxicants
- Worksheets for protocols
- Protocol planning sheet
- Data analysis peer review form
- section 3. Beyond protocols : conducting interactive research
- Ideas for bioassay research
- Dose/response bioassays
- Bioassays on environmental samples
- Detoxification/classification experiments
- Other possibilities
- Worksheets for interactive research
- Forms for planning research
- Choosing a research topic
- Interactive research planning sheet #1
- Interactive research planning sheet #2
- Presenting research results
- Bioassay research report form
- Poster design guidelines
- Peer review forms
- Experimental design peer review form
- Research report peer review form
- Poster peer review form.