Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center

Acute Toxicity of Fire Control Chemicals to Daphnia magna (Straus) and Selenastrum capricornutum (Printz)

Table 3


Table 3. Acute Toxicity (96-hr IC50; mg/liter; 95% Confidence Interval in Parentheses) of Five Fire-Fighting Chemicals to S. capricornutum Exposed in ASTM Algal Assay Mediuma
ChemicalIC50
Fire-Trol GTS-R18a
(17-20)
Fire-Trol LCG-R10b
(10-11)
Phos-Chek D75-F48c
(40-58)
Phos-Chek WD-88124d
(22-27)
Silv-Ex15a
(12-18)
a Values with different letters are significantly different (P = 0.05).

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