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EC number: 202-439-5 | CAS number: 95-65-8
Biodegradation in water: screening tests
Administrative data
- Endpoint:
- biodegradation in water: screening tests
- Type of information:
- experimental study
- Adequacy of study:
- supporting study
- Reliability:
- 2 (reliable with restrictions)
Data source
Referenceopen allclose all
- Reference Type:
- review article or handbook
- Title:
- No information
- Author:
- Database
- Year:
- 2 014
- Bibliographic source:
- Hazardous Substances Data Bank (HSDB), a database of the National Library of Medicine's TOXNET system (http://toxnet.nlm.nih.gov) on November 14, 2014.
- Reference Type:
- publication
- Title:
- No information
- Author:
- Mueller JG et al
- Year:
- 1 991
- Bibliographic source:
- Appl Environ Microbiol 57: 1277-285 (1991)
- Reference Type:
- publication
- Title:
- No information
- Author:
- Visser SA et al
- Year:
- 1 977
- Bibliographic source:
- Arch Environ Contam Toxicol 6: 455-70 (1977)
- Reference Type:
- publication
- Title:
- No information
- Author:
- Chambers CW et al
- Year:
- 1 963
- Bibliographic source:
- J Water Pollut Contr Fed 35: 1517-28 (1963)
- Reference Type:
- publication
- Title:
- Decomposition of Toxic and Nontoxic Organic Compounds in Soil
- Author:
- Medvedev V, Davidov VD
- Year:
- 1 981
- Bibliographic source:
- Overcash MR ed. Ann Arbor,MI: Ann Arbor Sci Publ pp. 245-54 (1981)
- Reference Type:
- publication
- Title:
- Treatability and Assessment of Coal Conversion Wastewaters
- Author:
- Singer PC et al
- Year:
- 1 979
- Bibliographic source:
- Phase I USEPA-600/7-79-248 (1979)
- Reference Type:
- publication
- Title:
- No information
- Author:
- Pitter P
- Year:
- 1 976
- Bibliographic source:
- Water Res 10: 231-5 (1976)
- Reference Type:
- publication
- Title:
- No information
- Author:
- McKinney RE et al
- Year:
- 1 956
- Bibliographic source:
- Sew Indust Wastes 28: 547-57 (1956)
- Title:
- No information
- Author:
- Heukelekian H, Rand MC
- Year:
- 1 955
- Bibliographic source:
- J Water Pollut Contr Assoc 29: 1040-53 (1955)]
Materials and methods
Test guideline
- Guideline:
- other: no data
- GLP compliance:
- not specified
Test material
- Reference substance name:
- 3,4-xylenol
- EC Number:
- 202-439-5
- EC Name:
- 3,4-xylenol
- Cas Number:
- 95-65-8
- Molecular formula:
- C8H10O
- IUPAC Name:
- 3,4-dimethylphenol
Constituent 1
Study design
- Oxygen conditions:
- aerobic
Results and discussion
Any other information on results incl. tables
In several studies 3,4 -Dimethylphenol was found to be biodegradable. Tested was the degradability in
- in contaminated groundwater from the American Creosote Works Superfund site, Pensacola, FL (fully in 2 Weeks)
- in St. Lawrence River water (readily)
- with adapted sludge
- in nine days within a hard, carbonaceous woody loam at 19 deg C
- 45.8% after 10 days from a coal gasification waste water feed and an acclimated sludge seed
- 97.5% chemical oxygen demand loss after 5 days in a screening test with an adapted activated sludge seeds
- 27% theoretical biological oxygen demand after 12 hr using an activated sludge seed
- 43% theoretical biological oxygen demand in five days, obtained from a screening test using a sewage seedApplicant's summary and conclusion
- Interpretation of results:
- readily biodegradable
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