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Quintozene Health and Safety Guide - Health and Safety Guide No. 23
(1989)
Quintozene is a pale yellow-to-white (depending on the purity) solid with a musty odour and a melting point of 142-146 C. It is soluble in carbon disulfide, benzene, chloroform, ketones, and aromatic and chlorinated ...
Data Base on the Mediterranean
(1986)
This report is a draft of the third version of the Blue PLAN Data Base on the Mediterranean, the definitive. This report is only an "extract" from the Blue Plan Data Base which contains today nearly 100 000 data.
Data Book of World Lake Environments: A Survey of the State of World Lakes (1991 Report)
(1991)
This is the fourth report from the Joint ILEC/UNEP project "Survey of the State of World Lakes", compiling geographical, limnological, socio-economic and environmental data on 38 lakes and reservoirs from Mongolia, Russia, ...
Data Book of the World Lake Environments: A Survey of the State of the State of World Lakes
(1987)
This data book is the major output from a joint ILEC/UNEP project. Survey of the State of World Lakes. The International Lake Environment Committee (ILEC) and the Lake Biwa Research Institute (LBRI) are jointly responsible ...
Instruments of Change: Motivating and Financing Sustainable Development
(1998)
This book is an eloquent expression of how market based instruments can indeed contribute to protecting the natural environment and thereby achieving sustainable development. Instruments of Change examines the use of ...
Instructions for the Selection and Presentation of Data for the International Register of Potentially Toxic Chemicals with Sixty Illustrative Chemical Data Profiles
(1979)
In 1972 the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment held in Stockholm, recommended that plans be developed for an
international registry of data on chemicals in the environment. In 1978, the Sixth Governing ...
Ammonia Health and Safety Guide - Health and Safety Guide 37
(1990)
Ammonia is a colourless acrid-smelling gas at room temperature and normal atmospheric pressure. Most people can identify its odour at 35 mg/rn3 in air. It can be stored and transported as a liquid at a pressure of 10 ...
Alpha- and Betahexachlorocyclohexanes (Alpha- and Beta-HCHs) Health and Safety Guide
(1991)
a- and 13-HCH can be determined separately from the other isomers, by gas chromatography with electron-capture detection, and other methods, after extraction by liquid/liquid partition and purification by column chromatography. ...
Dimethylformamide (Dmf) - Health and Safety Guide 43
(1990)
Dimethylformamide (DMF) is a colourless liquid with only a slight, unpleasant odour; smell is, therefore, not a useful warning signal. DMF is usually stable but, when it comes into contact with strong oxidizers, halogens, ...
Barium - Health and Safety Guide 46
(1991)
Barium is an alkaline earth metal that occurs in nature in a combined form. It is present in rocks, minerals, soils, air, natural waters, and fossil fuels. Some barium salts (e.g., acetate, nitrate, and chloride) are quite ...