A comparative analysis of different bioassays was carried out using as an example black liquor solutions, simulating wastewaters of the Kraft process for the digestion of cellulose. Alongside the analysis of products of lipid peroxidation (LPO) in blood plasma and the liver of mice in vivo, the most sensitive assays were based on the analysis of Ceriodaphnia reproduction, the analysis of LPO intensity in vitro, the mixed function oxygenase (MFO) assay in fish liver, and the population growth test of Tetrahymena pyriformis. The toxicological analysis of pulp and paper mill effluents at different stages of their formation and treatment has demonstrated two relationships, as follows:(i) a correlation between toxicity and the presence of reductive substances (as titrated by hydrogen peroxide in the presence of a catalyst), and (ii) a correlation between the content of these reductive substances in wastewater and the reduced sulfur compounds formed during cellulose digestion.Using the MFO induction assay and the LPO intensity assay in the model test system has demonstrated that the addition of hydrogen peroxide into solutions of black liquor results in their detoxification. It is concluded that the reduced sulfur compounds play a significant role in the toxicity of pulp and paper mill effluents.
Mögliche Rolle reduzierter Schwefelverbindungen für die toxischen Eigenschaften der Abwässer von Zellstoff-und Papierfabriken
We consider the infrared modification of gravity by the ghost condensate. Naively, in this scenario one expects sizable modification of gravity at distances of order 1000 km, provided that the characteristic timescale of the theory is of the order of the Hubble time. However, we argue that this is not the case. The main physical reason for the masking is the simple fact that the Earth (and any other object in the Universe) has a velocity at least of order 10 −3 c with respect to the rest frame of the ghost condensate. Taken together with strong retardation effects present in the ghost sector, this implies that no observable modification of the gravitational field of nearby objects occurs. Instead, the physical manifestation of the ghost condensate is the presence of 'star tracks'narrow regions of space with growing gravitational and ghost fields inside-along the trajectory of any massive object. We briefly discuss the possibilities for observing these tracks.
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