Environmental Biology for Engineers and
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Vaccari, David A.; Strom, Peter F.; Alleman, James E.
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Article
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2005
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John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
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English
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Toxicology is the study of physical or chemical agents that produce adverse effects on biological systems. This definition is a bit overly broad for our purpose, since, for example, it could include nontoxic oxygen-demanding substances that can kill fish by depleting oxygen in a stream. In this chap