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Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease...
Search toxic substances by Chemical Abstracts Service Number (CAS#), substance name, synonym, or tradename. Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry's Toxic Substances... More »
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International Year of Chemistry 2011 (IYC 2011)
The International Year of Chemistry 2011 (IYC 2011) is a worldwide celebration of the achievements of chemistry and its contributions to the well-being of humankind. Under the... More »
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Plants and Healthy Indoor Air
Poor indoor air quality has been linked to health problems. This article, written by Dr. Luz Claudio*, appeared first in Environmental Health Perspectives—the... More »
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Global Challenges/Chemistry Solutions
Global Challenges/Chemistry Solutions Global Challenges/Chemistry Solutions is a series of podcasts describing some of the 21st century's most daunting problems, and... More »
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Respiration
Respiration is the gas exchange effected by living organisms for the purpose of sustaining vital metabolic processes. In the case of most animals, oxygen is taken into the... More »
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Aflatoxin Contamination
Background Aflatoxin contamination is a common phenomenon produced by the fungus Aspergillus flavus, acting on food crops consumed in both developing countries and,... More »
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Heavy metal distributions in the Gulf of Cadiz
[Raul Perianez is the lead author of this article] Heavy metal distributions in the Gulf of Cadiz are generated chiefly by coastal riverine discharge, and thus... More »
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Marine carbonate chemistry
The ocean represents the largest surficial carbon reservoir (~38,000 Pg C) of Earth's carbon cycle. The mean concentration of inorganic carbon in the ocean is about 2.3... More »
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Dark side of insulation
Building insulation has become a modish activity in the western world since the 1980s. Considerable benefits can accrue in energy conservation, occupant comfort and reduction of... More »
Rooftop runoff contamination
Last Updated on 2013-05-25 at 19:49
[The lead author of this article is Dennis Lye]
Rooftop runoff contamination is receiving increasing attention as environmental and health issues, particularly as human... More »
Extraterrestrial soils
Last Updated on 2013-05-23 at 18:48
Extraterrestrial soils may be defined as any of the solid granular crustal features of planets and moon other than those soils on planet Earth. Despite four decades of space... More »
Kara Sea
Last Updated on 2013-05-14 at 14:13
The Kara Sea (alternatively, Karshoe More) is a saline marine body that is an element of the Arctic Ocean, situated north of the Siberian region of Russia.
Lying on the... More »
Sulu Sea
Last Updated on 2013-05-13 at 23:04
The Sulu Sea is a tropical seawater body in the Malayan Archipelago of Southeast Asia.
It is partitioned from the South China Sea in the northwest by the Phillipines island... More »
Sea of Marmara
Last Updated on 2013-05-13 at 22:37
The Sea of Marmara (also Sea of Marmora and, in the context of classical antiquity, as the Propontis) is an inland brackish sea which connects the Black Sea to the Aegean... More »
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