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Calculation of a toxicity index for materials, based on a biological evaluation method

Author(s) -

Herpol Claire,

Vandevelde Paul

Publication year - 1978

Publication title -

fire and materials

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.482

H-Index - 58

eISSN - 1099-1018

pISSN - 0308-0501

DOI - 10.1002/fam.810020104

Subject(s) - index (typography) , rank (graph theory) , toxicity , function (biology) , toxicology , statistics , computer science , mathematics , biology , medicine , combinatorics , evolutionary biology , world wide web

An attempt has been made to present toxicological results obtained by a biological evaluation method in a simple and comprehensive way. The calculation of a toxicity index which expresses mortality rates as a function of the very important time factor is proposed. Additionally it is shown how such an index could be used to rank a series of twenty materials according to their relative toxicity.

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