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Effect of low intensity electromagnetic radiation on the toxicity of domestic wastewater tested with the “Ecolum” test-system

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Irradiation of wastewater by low intensity electromagnetic radiation (ν = 42.25 GHz) affects the integral toxicity of water of a different purification degree, which was revealed by an express method on the basis of the Ecolum-08 bacterial luminescent test system. We have shown that the lower the degree of water purification, the higher the toxicity effect of EMR. This allows us to propose the Ecolum bacterial luminescent test system for the primary testing of the effect of EMR.

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    A. P. Zarubina, L. A. Novoselova & L. D. Gapochka

  2. Department of Physics, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia

    M. G. Gapochka

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Original Russian Text © A.P. Zarubina, M.G. Gapochka, L.A. Novoselova, L.D. Gapochka, 2013, published in Vestnik Moskovskogo Universiteta. Biologiya, 2012, No. 3, pp. 39–43.

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Zarubina, A.P., Gapochka, M.G., Novoselova, L.A. et al. Effect of low intensity electromagnetic radiation on the toxicity of domestic wastewater tested with the “Ecolum” test-system. Moscow Univ. Biol.Sci. Bull. 68, 49–52 (2013). https://doi.org/10.3103/S0096392512030108

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