environmental bioavailability

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Ratio of uptake clearance to the rate at which an organism encounters a given contaminant in an environmental medium (e.g., soil, sediment, water, food) being processed by the organism.
Note: This is a measure of an organism’s extraction efficiency, via respiratory, dietary, and surface absorption processes, from the environmentally available (bioaccessible) portion of a material.
Source:
PAC, 2009, 81, 829. (Glossary of terms used in ecotoxicology (IUPAC Recommendations 2009)) on page 877 [Terms] [Paper]
Citation: 'environmental bioavailability' in IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 5th ed. International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry; 2025. Online version 5.0.0, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1351/goldbook.14639 RIS BibTex EndNote
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