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2-Nitropropane - Environmental Health Criteria 138
(1992)
2-Nitropropane (2-NP) is a colourless, oily liquid with a mild odour. It is flammable, only moderately volatile, and stable under ordinary conditions. It is only slightly soluble in water but miscible with many organic ...
Implications of Expected Climate Change in the Eastern African Region: An Overview - UNEP Regional Seas Reports and Studies No. 149
(1992)
This paper reviews the results of a series of papers prepared by members of the Task Team on Implications of Climate Changes in the Eastern African Region, in cooperation with the Oceans and Coastal Areas Programme Activity ...
1,1,1 - Trichloroethane - Environmental Health Criteria 136
(1992)
1,1,1-Trichloroethane is a chlorinated hydrocarbon which is manufactured from vinyl chloride or vinylidene chloride by chlorination. The world production was approximately 680 000 tonnes in 1988. It is a colourless, ...
Protecting the Ozone Layer Volume 5: Aerosols, Sterilants, Carbon Tetrachloride and Miscellaneous Uses
(1992)
The use of ozone-depleting substances in industry increased significantly until about 1990. The result has been serious depletion of the ozone layer. New data have recently revealed that the hole in the Antarctic ozone ...
Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs) and Polychlorinated Terphenyls (PCTs) Health and Safety Guide 68
(1992)
The PCBs are chlorinated hydrocarbons that are manufactured commercially by the progressive chlorination of biphenyl in the presence of a suitable catalyst (e.g., iron chloride). Depending on the reaction conditions, the ...
Inorganic Arsenic Compounds other than Arsine Health and Safety Guide - Health and Safety Guide 70
(1992)
Arsenic compounds are often unstable, and in many cases are not well defined materials. For example, the arsenites of the alkali metals are slowly converted in solution to arsenates, by atmospheric oxygen. Arsenic trisulfide ...
Rotenone Health and Safety Guide - Health and Safety Guide 73
(1992)
Rotenone is a naturally occurring chemical with insecticidal and piscicidal properties obtained from the roots of several tropical and subtropical plant species belonging to genus Lonchcarpus or Derris. Rotenone is a ...
Trimellitic Anhydride Health and Safety Guide - Health and Safety Guide 71
(1992)
Trimellitic anhydride is a white solid in the firm of flakes. It is readily hydrolysed in water to trimellitic acid, which is moderately soluble in water. Trimellitic anhydride is readily soluble in acetone, cyclohexanone, ...
Endemic Fluorosis: A Global Health Issue - A Technical Report for the Human Assessment Locations Project
(1992)
Fluoride is one of the essential trace elements, a lack of which is manifested as dental caries throughout many parts of the world, yet excess fluoride is responsible for more serious disease (WHO, 1984b).
1, 3-Dichloropropene, 1, 2-Diciiloropropane and Mixtures Health and Safety Guide 76
(1992)
Commercial 1,3-dichioropropene is a mixture of cis- and trans- isomers and 92% pure. It may also be used in admixtures with 1 ,2-dibromoethane (Dorloe) or with 1 ,2dichloropropane (D-D , soil fumigant; Nemex Telone , and ...