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Characteristics of four natural water samples from urban and rural areas and the efficiency of a new purifying agent, potassium ferrate K2FeO4, were studied by bacterial luminescence bioassay for 30 minutes. It was revealed that two samples of water from the urban areas are toxic, while the other two samples (one from urban and one from rural environment) are nontoxic. Numerous data obtained on the increase in toxicity index with time allow reasonable conclusions to be made about the chemical nature of substances present in the test water samples. Toxic natural water samples were likely to contain heavy metals and were well purified using potassium ferrate, including via their adsorption. In nontoxic natural water samples, toxic complexes with organic compounds present in water could form at the addition of potassium ferrate. The obtained data call for further studying the properties of potassium ferrate complexes with organic compounds. Bacterial luminescence bioassay is a promising method for the rapid assessment of properties of various water sources (their integral toxicity and presumable chemical composition) and new reagents for their purification (effective concentrations, bactericidal properties, and mechanisms of interacting with heavy metals and organic substances in water).
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Original Russian Text © A.P. Zarubina, Yu.D. Perfiliev, E.V. Sorokina, A.I. Netrusov, 2016, published in Vestnik Moskovskogo Universiteta, Seriya 16: Biologiya, 2016, No. 4, pp. 50–56.
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Zarubina, A.P., Perfiliev, Y.D., Sorokina, E.V. et al. Evaluation of the properties of potassium ferrate used for water purification by luminescence bioassay. Moscow Univ. Biol.Sci. Bull. 71, 226–230 (2016). https://doi.org/10.3103/S0096392516040131
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