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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 ...
Methods to Assess DNA Damage and Repair: Interspecies Comparisons
(John Wiley and Sons Ltd., 1994)
This report evaluates current knowledge of the mechanisms of activation/detoxication of DNA damaging agents, organotropic and cell-structure effects, induction and repair of DNA damage, and the molecular and phenotypical ...
Atrazine Health and Safety Guide - Health and Safety Guide No. 47
(1990)
The first three sections of this Health and Safety Guide present essential technical information and the hazard evaluation. Section 4 includes advice on preventive and protective measures and emergency action; health workers ...
Mine Rehabilitation for Environment and Health Protection - A Training Manual
(1998)
This manual has been prepared jointly by the United Nations Environment Programme, Industry and Environment (UNEP JE) and the World Health Organisation (WHO). It complements an earlier trainer's package on Environmental ...
Water Resources Development and Vector-Borne Diseases in Zambia - Report of a National Seminar
(1996)
A National Seminar on Water Resources Development and Vector-borne Diseases was held at the Regional Training Centre, Kafue Gorge, Zambia from 6 to 10 November 1995 as part of the programme of work of the joint WHOIFAO/UNEP/UNCHS ...