Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Toxicology of Halogenated Hydrocarbons: Health and Ecological Effects
    Toxicology of Halogenated Hydrocarbons: Health and Ecological Effects
    Toxicology of Halogenated Hydrocarbons: Health and Ecological Effects
    Ebook338 pages19 hours

    Toxicology of Halogenated Hydrocarbons: Health and Ecological Effects

    ()

    Read preview

    About this ebook

    Toxicology of Halogenated Hydrocarbons: Health and Ecological Effects covers the papers of a symposium held at the 2nd Chemical Congress of the North American Continent and the 180th national meeting of the American Chemical Society in fall of 1980 in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. The book contains papers on human exposure and health effects; hepatotoxicity and carcinogenicity; and cytotoxicity, teratogenicity, mutagenicity, and neurotoxicity. The text also presents papers on the metabolism and toxicodynamics of halogenated hydrocarbons, as well as the embryotoxicity and environmental fate related to halogenated hydrocarbons in animals and humans.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherElsevier Science
    Release dateSep 17, 2013
    ISBN9781483182339
    Toxicology of Halogenated Hydrocarbons: Health and Ecological Effects

    Related to Toxicology of Halogenated Hydrocarbons

    Related ebooks

    Medical For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      Science And Environment

      Feb 9, 2024

      Science And Environment
      1 min read

    • Article

      These Algae Thieves Could Survive Climate Change

      Oct 1, 2018

      Green algae that evolved to tolerate hostile and fluctuating conditions in salt marshes and inland salt flats could survive climate change, thanks to hardy genes they stole from bacteria, according to new research. Single-celled Picochlorum green alg

      2 min read

    • Article

      Bibliography

      Jan 22, 2020

      1. Al Gore, our Choice, A plan to solve the climate crisis; Melcher Media). 2. Jeff Tollefson nature, international journal of science, China declared worlds largest producer of scientific articles-, 2018 Science & Enginering indicators, National Sci

      10 min read

    • Article

      Treating Water For One Toxic Thing Can Create Another

      May 2, 2018

      A water treatment method may cause a new potential contaminant while taking care of an old one, researchers say. The scientists examined what can result when treatment plants use peroxide radicals to remove phenols from water. “We’re very good at dev

      3 min read

    • Article

      The Secret, Stressful Stories of Fossils: A new field called paleoepigenetics is probing how evolution responds to sudden stress.

      Dec 3, 2015

      Every year the paleontologist Alan Cooper meets up with a band of miners in the Yukon. As the miners go about their work, spraying massive jets of water at frozen mud and silt to excavate gold, they also expose animal remains from the Pleistocene, b

      8 min read

    • Article

      A Fine Mess

      Sep 22, 2019

      A Fine Mess
      5 min read

    • Article

      Diet Affects Killer Whale Pollution Exposure More Than Location

      Oct 25, 2023

      Killer whales’ diet has a greater impact than their location on contaminant levels and potential health risks, a new study shows. Both elegant and fierce, killer whales are some of the oceans’ top predators, but even they can be exposed to environmen

      1 min read

    • Article

      Science And Environment

      Aug 26, 2022

      A new method for decomposing some PFAS compounds may represent a major breakthrough in addressing environmental contamination across the world, according to research published in the journal Science. PFAS, or per and polyfluoroalkyl substances, are c

      2 min read

    • Article

      The Serengeti Rules

      Jan 9, 2020

      The Serengeti Rules
      2 min read

    • Article

      Chemical Bits Can Be Worse Than The Whole For Bald Eagles

      Jul 16, 2018

      Toxic chemicals in the environment that accumulate in the tissues of birds, fish, and other animals have been a concern for decades. A new study with bald eagles suggests that’s only part of the story. Scientists discovered that chemicals used in fla

      2 min read

    • Article

      ‘Competing’ Ocean Bacteria May Collaborate Instead

      Jul 6, 2017

      Two of the most abundant types of microorganism in the oceans—phototrophic and heterotrophic bacteria—collaborate rather than compete, new research suggests. The finding contradicts the popular scientific belief that these bacteria compete over the s

      1 min read

    • Article

      Science And Environment

      Apr 1, 2022

      The world’s forests play a far greater and more complex role in tackling climate crisis than previously thought, due to their physical effects on global and local temperatures, according to new research. The role of forests as carbon sponges is well

      2 min read

    • Article

      1 Amino Acid May Give Some Whales Teeth

      Jul 20, 2017

      Reserchers have found that a variation in a single amino acid in a key receptor in whales may explain why some species are sleek hunters (like orcas) while others are gargantuan filter feeders (like humpbacks). Roger Cone of the University of Michiga

      2 min read

    • Article

      Science And Environment

      Oct 6, 2023

      Two scientists have been awarded the 2023 Nobel prize in physiology or medicine for their contributions to RNA biology that contributed to vaccine development during the Covid pandemic. Prof Katalin Karikó and Prof Drew Weissman share the 11m Swedish

      2 min read

    Related categories

    Reviews for Toxicology of Halogenated Hydrocarbons

    0 ratings

    0 ratings0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

      Book preview

      Toxicology of Halogenated Hydrocarbons - M.A.Q. Khan

      Enjoying the preview?
      Page 1 of 1