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Directory of Marine Environmental Research Institutions in the Wider Caribbean Region - CEP Technical report No. 6
(1991)
As part of the continuing effort of the Caribbean Environment Programme (CEP) to provide technical information which may contribute to the protection of the marine environment, specialized directories of marine environmental ...
d-Phenothrin - Environmental Health Criteria 96
(1990)
d-Phenothrin has been in use since 1977. It is estimated that 70-80 tonnes of d-phenothrin are used annually worldwide, mainly to control noxious insects in the household and insects of public health concern and to protect ...
Directory of Institutions and Individuals Active in Environmentally-Sound and Appropriate Technologies Volume 1
(1979)
The UNEP Reference series publishes volumes in the key reference areas covered by UNEP and provides useful service to all those connected with the environment. Through the UNEP reference series, the environment programme ...
Report of the First meeting of the Co-ordination Body on the Seas of East Asia
(1982)
On the initiative of States of the region, the Governing Council of the United Nations Environment Programme in 1977 decoded that "steps are urgently needed to formulate and establish a scientific programme involving ...
Tetramethrin - Environmental Health Criteria 98
(1990)
Tetramethrin was first synthesized in 1964 and first marketed in 1965. Chemically, it is an ester of chrysan-themic acid (2,2-imethyl-3-(2,2-dimethylvinyl)-cyclopro-panecarboxylic acid) with 3,4,5,6-tetrahydrophth ...
2-Propanol - Environmental Health Criteria 103
(1990)
2-Propanol is a colourless highly flammable liquid with an odour resembling that of a mixture of ethanol and acetone. The compound is completely miscible with water, ethanol, acetone, chloroform, and benzene. Analytical ...
Beryllium - Environmental Health Criteria 106
(1990)
Beryllium is a steel-grey, brittle metal, existing naturally only as the 9Be isotope. Its compounds are divalent. Beryllium
has several unique properties. It is the lightest of all solid and chemically-stable substances, ...
1-Propanol - Environmental Health Criteria 102
(1990)
1-Propanol is a colourless, highly flammable liquid that is volatile at room temperature and normal atmospheric pressure. It is miscible with water and organic solvents. Analytical methods for propanol include gas ...
Vinylidene Chloride - Environmental Health Criteria 100
(1990)
Vinylidene chloride (C2H2Cl2) is a volatile, colourless liquid with a "sweet" odour. It is stabilized with p- methoxyphenol to prevent the formation of explosive peroxides. Vinylidene chloride is used for the production ...
Cyhalothrin - Environmental Health Criteria 99
(1990)
Cyhalothrin is formed by esterifying 3-(2-chloro-3,3,3-trifluoroprop-1-enyl)-2,2- dimethylcyclopropanecarboxylic acid with alpha-cyano-3-phenoxybenzyl alcohol, and it consists of a mixture of four stereoisomers. ...