• The Protocol to the 1979 Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution Concerning the Control of Emissions of Volatile Organic Compounds or Their...
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  • Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) are organic compounds that have a high vapor pressure at room temperature. High vapor pressure correlates with a low...
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    Helsinki Protocol on the Reduction of Sulphur Emissions Nitrogen Oxide Protocol (1988) Volatile Organic Compounds Protocol (1991) 1994 Oslo Protocol on Further...
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    Persistent organic pollutants (POPs) are organic compounds that are resistant to degradation through chemical, biological, and photolytic processes. They...
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  • the chemistry of organofluorine compounds, organic compounds that contain a carbon–fluorine bond. Organofluorine compounds find diverse applications ranging...
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    Pollution Protocol Sulphur Emissions Reduction Protocols 1985 and 1994 Volatile Organic Compounds Protocol Convention on the Prevention of Marine Pollution...
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    dissociate volatile organobromine compounds in the atmosphere to yield free bromine atoms, causing ozone depletion. As a result, many organobromine compounds—such...
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  • sulphur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, volatile organic compounds and ammonia to be met by 2010. As of August 2014, the Protocol had been ratified by 26 parties...
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    that had been exposed to sunlight. DCM's volatility and ability to dissolve a wide range of organic compounds makes it a useful solvent for many chemical...
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    strictly followed and many fluorine-containing organic compounds are also called fluorocarbons. Compounds with the prefix perfluoro- are hydrocarbons, including...
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    Summaries: Volatile Organic Compounds". Air emission sources. United States Environmental Protection Agency. 25 October 2013. "Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs)"...
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  • synthesis and properties of organobromine compounds, also called organobromides, which are organic compounds that contain carbon bonded to bromine. The...
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    synthetic mercuric sulfide. Exposure to mercury and mercury-containing organic compounds is toxic to the nervous system, immune system and kidneys of humans...
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    Nitrogen (redirect from Organic nitrogen)
    the most abundant chemical species in air. Because of the volatility of nitrogen compounds, nitrogen is relatively rare in the solid parts of the Earth...
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    by the IPPC directive on greenhouse gases in 1994 and by the volatile organic compounds (VOC) directive of the EU in 1997. Permitted chlorofluoroalkane...
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    In organic chemistry, an aldehyde (/ˈældɪhaɪd/) is an organic compound containing a functional group with the structure R−CH=O. The functional group itself...
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    metabolites, toxins, secondary products, or natural products, are organic compounds produced by any lifeform, e.g. bacteria, fungi, animals, or plants...
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    of organozinc compounds, which are organometallic compounds that contain carbon (C) to zinc (Zn) chemical bonds. Organozinc compounds were among the...
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  • with this compound may result in frostbite.[failed verification] In the United States, the Clean Air Act Section 111 on Volatile Organic Compounds (VOC) has...
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  • also called methyl chloride, Refrigerant-40, R-40 or HCC 40, is an organic compound with the chemical formula CH3Cl. One of the haloalkanes, it is a colorless...
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    Trichloroethylene (category Chemical articles with multiple compound IDs)
    which is commonly known as chlorothene. TCE is classified as a volatile organic compound. The earliest record of trichloroethylene synthesis dates back...
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  • degrade or sequester toxic hydrocarbons, heavy metals, and other volatile organic compounds found within fossil fuels. Oil spills happen frequently at varying...
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    superior solvent for organic compounds that do not dissolve well in hydrocarbons such as hexane. Prior to the Montreal Protocol, it was widely used for...
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    polymerization with an organic di-amino compound to form a polyamide called nylon or polymerization with certain other organic compounds to form polyesters...
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    CS gas (redirect from Chemical compound CS)
    breathing, partially incapacitating the subject. CS gas is an aerosol of a volatile solvent (a substance that dissolves other active substances and that easily...
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    ozone-depleting substances, Nitrogen Oxides (NOx), Sulfur Oxides (SOx), Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) and shipboard incineration. It also establishes requirements...
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    Chemistry of ascorbic acid (category Organic acids)
    Ascorbic acid is an organic compound with formula C 6H 8O 6, originally called hexuronic acid. It is a white solid, but impure samples can appear yellowish...
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  • Thumbnail for N-Nitrosodimethylamine
    (DMN), is an organic compound with the formula (CH3)2NNO. It is one of the simplest members of a large class of nitrosamines. It is a volatile yellow oil...
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  • Thumbnail for Dissolved organic carbon
    is a heterogeneous pool of thousands, likely millions, of organic compounds. These compounds differ not only in composition and concentration (from pM...
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    Dimethyl sulfoxide (category Chemical articles with multiple compound IDs)
    aprotic solvent that dissolves both polar and nonpolar compounds and is miscible in a wide range of organic solvents as well as water. It has a relatively high...
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