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RIVERS polluted with sewage effluent may contain low concentrations of dissolved oxygen at places where the concentrations of ammonia and carbon dioxide are relatively high. It is known that both ammonia and carbon dioxide are toxic to fish in high enough concentration, and that they are rendered more toxic by lowering the concentration of dissolved oxygen1, 2. A study of the toxicity to fish of water containing both these substances when the concentration of dissolved oxygen was low, but not lethal, was thought desirable.
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ALABASTER, J., HERBERT, D. Influence of Carbon Dioxide on the Toxicity of Ammonia. Nature 174, 404 (1954). https://doi.org/10.1038/174404a0
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