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ENVIRONMENTAL TOXICOLOGY AND CHEMISTRY
Volume 22, Issue 12, Pages 2861-2871Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1897/02-541
Keywords
polychlorinated biphenyl; desorption; bioavailability; tenax
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Only a fraction of all sediment-associated hydrophobic organic contaminants are bioavailable, and a simple Tenax(R) extraction procedure may estimate this fraction. Bioavailability is assumed to coincide with the rapidly and, possibly, slowly desorbing sediment-associated contaminant. River sediment was spiked with radiolabeled (C-14) and nonradiolabeled (C-12) 3,4,3',4'-tetrachlorobiphenyl (TCBP), and desorption kinetics using Tenax extraction were obtained at 10degreesC and 22degreesC. Bioaccumulation was measured in Lumbriculus variegatus, Chironomus tentans, and Hyalella azteca. Desorption of TCBP was triphasic at 22degreesC and slowed at 10degreesC to show only biphasic kinetics. The rapidly desorbing fractions decreased with increasing TCBP sediment concentration. The biota sediment accumulation factors, biota accumulation factors. and sediment clearance coefficients (k(s)) also decreased with increasing sediment TCBP concentration. The rapidly Plus slowly desorbing fractions and the total TCBP desorbed when 99.9% of the rapidly desorbing fraction had desorbed were used to estimate bioavailable TCBP. These Tenax-based fractions did not explain tire decreasing bioavailability with increasing TCBP load. Several factors, such as animal behavior and TCBP water solubility limitations, were evaluated to explain the concentration effect, but the most likely cause was severe diffusion limitations in whole sediment that were not predicted by the fully mixed Tenax extraction. Therefore, desorbing fractions determined by Tenax extraction overestimated the bioavailable fractions in sediments.
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