Toxicities of RDX or TNT Freshly Amended or Weathered-and-Aged in Five Natural Soils to the Collembolan Folsomia candida

Abstract

The toxicities of 2,4,6-trinitrotoluene (TNT) and hexahydro-1,3,5-trinitro-1,3,5-triazine (RDX) to Folsomia candida (Collembola) were investigated using an ISO 11267:1998 test. Studies were designed to identify and characterize soil physicochemical parameters that may affect the acute (adult mortality) and chronic (reproduction) toxicities of TNT and RDX to F. candida and also to generate ecotoxicological benchmarks for development of ecological soil screening levels for risk assessments of contaminated soils. Soils studied included Teller and Sassafras sandy loams (TSL and SSL, respectively) and Richfield, Kirkland, and Webster clay loams (RCL, KCL, and WCL, respectively). Based on the effective concentrations for 50% of the population (EC50 values), for TNT weathered-and-aged in soil, chronic toxicity to F. candida was in the order KCL > RCL > TSL > WCL > SSL, and for RDX weathered-and-aged in soil, the order was RCL > WCL > TSL > KCL > SSL. Organic matter was the dominant soil property that mitigated TNT toxicity for adult survival in freshly amended soil; soil pH correlated strongly with acute toxicity benchmarks (the effective concentrations for 20% of the population [EC20 values] for adult survival) for RDX freshly amended in soil. These correlations were not sustained after weathering-and-aging of TNT or RDX in soil.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 01, 2013
Accession Number
ADA599277

Entities

People

  • Carl W. Kurnas
  • Carlton T. Phillips
  • Jan E. Kolakowski
  • Michael Simini
  • Roman G Kuperman
  • Ronald T. Checkai

Organizations

  • Edgewood Chemical Biological Center

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Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aromatic Compounds
  • Chemical Analysis
  • Chemical Synthesis
  • Chemical Warfare Agents
  • Chemistry
  • Ecotoxicology
  • Energetic Materials
  • Environment
  • Environmental Pollutants
  • Environmental Protection
  • Explosives
  • Liquid Chromatography
  • Materials
  • Organic Chemistry
  • Organic Compounds
  • Regression Analysis
  • Toxicity

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

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  • Agricultural Chemistry/Soil Science