The experimental period was 48 hours. Nevertheless, these values show that recovery is possible if environmental conditions return to normal. It appeared correlated to the decrease in metabolic activity and accompanying reduction energy expenditure in response to the paralytic phase of intoxication. Finally under laboratory conditions AEC values appeared to be indicative of sublethal contamination, for this species and this toxicant. However for acute exposures it does not appear that AEC is a very good indicator.
Lindane exists in two stable configurations in three dimensions, the so-called chair formations.
These are depicted here. Cyclohexane is not a planar structure like a benzene ring. It exists as a boat or chair arrangement which does not change the tetrahedral arrangement of any of the bonds connected to any one of the carbon atoms making up the cyclohexane backbone. The structures are provided above to explain the axial and equatorial designation given to the orientation of the chlorine atoms in the various isomers. The bonds nearest the viewer are darkened for perspective.