| Chemical |
Sodium hypochlorite |
| CAS-number : |
7681-52-9 |
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| Synonyms : |
| Hypochlorous acid, sodium salt |
| Natriumhypokloriitti |
| |
| Sumformula of the chemical : |
| ClHO.Na |
| EINECS-number : |
| 2316683 |
| |
| Molecular weight : |
75.45 |
| |
| Effects on plants : |
Seed tubers of potatoes for main-crop planting of 'Rua' and
'Whitu' yielded about 10 % less after dipping in a 1 % solution of
sodium hypochlorite for longer than 1 h.
After 4 months
storage field emergence of 'Rua' was significantly reduced.
Bedi & Genet 1977
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| |
| LC50 values to crustaceans, mg/l : |
| 40 |
96hr, 10 °C, Nitocra spinipes |
| |
Linden et al. 1979 |
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| LC50 values to fishes, mg/l : |
| 0.07 |
(C12), 48 hr, Salmo gairdneri |
| |
Nikunen et al. 1985 |
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-- |
| 5.9 |
96hr, Pimephales promelas |
| |
Curtis et al. 1979 |
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-- |
| 32 |
32 - 37, 96hr, 10 °C, Alburnus alburnus |
| 37 |
Linden et al. 1979 |
| |
| LOEC values to fishes, mg/l : |
| 0.02 |
C12, srv, schr, Oncorhynchus kisutch |
| |
Larson et al. 1978 |
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| Effects on reproduction of water organisms : |
Piscicola salmotica, 0.094 mg/l, 1 d, change in percent hatch or
time to hatch (Bower & Thompson 1987).
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References |
| 1761 | Bedi, A.S. & Genet, R.A. 1977.
Effect of dipping seed potatoes
in sodium hypochlorite or water on dormancy and yield.
N.
Z.
J.
Exp.
Agric. 5(3): 297 - 299. |
| 2070 | Bower, S.M. & Thompson, A.B. 1987.
Hatching of the Pacific
salmon leech (Piscicola salmositica) from cocoons exposed to
various treaments.
Aquaculture 66: 1. |
| 300 | Curtis, M.W., Copeland, T.L. & Ward, C.H. 1979.
Acute
toxicity of 12 industrial chemicals to freshwater and
saltwater organisms.
Water Res. 13: 137 - 141. |
| 782 | Larson, G.L. et al. 1978.
Toxicity of residual chlorine
compounds to aquatic organisms.
EPA-600/3-78-023, U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency, Duluth, Minn. |
| 831 | Linden, E., Bengtsson, B-E., Svanberg, O. & Sundström, G.
1979.
The acute toxicity of 78 chemicals and pesticide
formulations against two brackish water organisms, the
bleak (Alburnus alburnus) and the harpacticoid Nitocra
spinipes.
Chemosphere 11/12: 843 - 851. |
| 1046 | Nikunen, E., Soivio, A. & Tuurala, H. 1985.
Selluteollisuuden
jätevesien vaikutus natriumhypokloriitin myrkyllisyyteen.
Saimaaseminaari. 21-22.3.1985.
Joensuun yliopisto. |
| 1973 | Pilli.A., Carle, D.O., Kline.
E., Pickering.
Q. & Lazorchak.
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Effets of pollution on freshwater organisms.
JWPCF
60(6): 994 - 1065. |
