METHOD FOR BIOTESTING TOXICITY OF WATER AND AQUEOUS SOLUTIONS Russian patent published in 2013 - IPC G01N33/00 

FIELD: chemistry.

SUBSTANCE: method involves exposing the analysed sample of a plant object to intermittent light of high intensity of 100-250 W/m² from blue light-emitting diodes with luminous excitation of said sample and detection of after-glow in the red spectral region using a photodetector between light pulses passing through a red light filter, wherein by cutting duration of light periods of luminous excitation while simultaneously increasing dark intervals in between, conditions are created for low light exposure, and by increasing the ratio of duration of light periods to dark periods, conditions are created for high light exposure; intensity of delayed fluorescence of the analysed sample is measured in high light exposure mode at the beginning of each damping curve; intensity in low light exposure mode is measured at the end of each damping curve, and toxicity is determined from their ratio.

EFFECT: high accuracy and sensitivity of determination.

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