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Acrylic Acid Health and Safety Guide - Health and Safety Guide 104
(1997)
Acrylic acid is a colourless liquid with an irritating acrid odour at room temperature and pressure. Its odour threshold is low (0.20-3.14 mg/rn3). It is miscible in water and most organic solvents.
Hydroquinone Health and Safety Guide 101
(1996)
Hydroquinone is a white crystalline substance when pure and is highly soluble in water. Hydroquinone is combustible when preheated. It is a reducing agent that is reversibly oxidized to semiquinone and quinone.
Hydrazine Health and Safety Guide - Health and Safety Guide 56
(1991)
Anhydrous hydrazine, and aqueous solutions, are colourless liquids. Anhydrous hydrazine is a caustic, fuming, hygroscopic liquid at normal temperature and pressure. It has an ammoniacal, fishy, and pungent odour. The odour ...
Hexachlorobenzene Health and Safety Guide - Health and Safety Guide 107
(1998)
At ambient temperature, HCB is a white crystalline solid. Technical grade HCB is available as a wettable powder, liquid or dust. It is virtually insoluble in water, but is soluble in ether, benzene, chloroform and hot ...
White Spirit (Stoddard Solvent) Health and Safety Guide - Health and Safety Guide 103
(1996)
White spirit is a mixture of saturated aliphatic and alicyclic C7 to C2 hydrocarbons with a maximum content of 25% of C7 to C 12 alkyl aromatic hydrocarbons.
Carbon Tetrachloride Health and Safety Guide - Health and Safety Guide 108
(1998)
Carbon tetrachioride is a volatile, colourless, clear, heavy liquid with a characteristic sweet, non-irritant odour. The odour threshold in water is 0.52 mg/litre, and in air it is >64.1 mg/m3 (10 ppm). Carbon tetrachioride ...
Health Criteria and Epidemiological Studies Related to Coastal Water Pollution
(1977)
Among the immediate objectives of the above pilot project is the initiation of a scientific study on the epidemiological evidence of health effects resulting from inadequate sanitary conditions in coastal areas, and the ...
Guidelines for Health Related Monitoring of Coastal Water Quality
(1977)
The present guidelines were drawn up to meet only those needs of participants in MED VII which are relevant to coastal water quality monitoring as expressed in the joint WHO/UNEP Expert Consultation on the subject (1). ...
Health Impacts of Different Sources of Energy: Proceedings of an International Symposium on Health Impacts of Different Sources of Energy
(1982)
This report is an analysis of the health and safety risks of seven electrical generation systems, all of which have the potential for commercial availability after the year 2000. This report summarizes the results of an ...
Methomyl - Environmental Health Criteria 178
(1996)
Methomyl is a white crystalline solid with a melting point of 77 °C and a vapour pressure of 0.72 mPa (25°C ). Its solubility in water is 54.7 g/litre and its octanol/water partition coefficient (K) is 1.24. It is stable ...