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Hydrobiological Journal

ISSN for PRINT: 0018-8166

Institutional price:	$1994.00
Issues per year:	6

Best Paper Award Selection - Editorial Board Site

2005, Volume41

126 pages

Issue price - $369.00

Effect of a Catione-Active Surfactant on the Level of Toxicity of Chromium (VI) in Aquatic Organisms

I. B. Zubenko
Institute of Hydrobiology, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kiev, Ukraine

T. V. Parshikova
T. G. Shevchenko Kiev National University, 60, Vladimirskaya St., 01017 Kiev, Ukraine

ABSTRACT

It has been shown in aquarium experiments that catamine, a cationic surfactant, strengthens the toxic action of chromium (VI) on the chlorophyll a accumulation (which served as an indicator of algal biomass) and inhibits substantially the photosynthesis intensity in Chlorella vulgaris Beijer.