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    Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) are highly carcinogenic chemical compounds, formerly used in industrial and consumer products, whose production was banned...
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    smell. Biphenyl is an aromatic hydrocarbon with a molecular formula (C6H5)2. It is notable as a starting material for the production of polychlorinated biphenyls...
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  • multiple limiting factors for this co-metabolism. Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) are various biphenyl based artificial products that are widely used as...
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  • plant in Sauget, Illinois, was the nation's largest producer of polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) compounds, which remained in the water along Dead Creek there...
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    "Negative association between plasma levels of adiponectin and polychlorinated biphenyl 153 in obese women under non-energy-restrictive regime". Int J...
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  • Chemical Company. Prior to 1971, Monsanto marketed a series of polychlorinated biphenyl-(PCB)-containing heat transfer fluids designated as Therminol FR...
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  • the stability and thermal and electrical properties of the oil. Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCB) are synthetic dielectrics first made over a century ago...
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  • due to dioxin-like polychlorinated dibenzofurans and polychlorinated biphenyls, and the contribution from actual polychlorinated dibenzodioxins was relatively...
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    and has no PCDD-like toxicity. Polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins Polychlorinated dibenzofurans Polychlorinated biphenyls 1,4-dioxin Dioxins have different...
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    diffuse large B-cell lymphoma. HIV infection. Some chemicals, like polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), diphenylhydantoin, dioxin, and phenoxy herbicides. Medical...
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    mentioned above, though the United States did ban the use of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), there is the possibility that they are present in products...
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  • constructed two new facilities. IBT began conducting tests on polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in 1969. In 1970, Calandra began construction of a large...
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    PCB congener list (category Biphenyls)
    This is a complete list of polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) congeners. Congener descriptors give a shorthand notation for geometry and substituent positions...
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    Polybrominated biphenyls (PBBs), also called brominated biphenyls or polybromobiphenyls, are a group of manufactured chemicals that consist of polyhalogenated...
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    Coal Combustion Residual Landfills. Hazardous waste or PCB waste: Polychlorinated Biphenyl (PCB) landfills that are monitored in the United States by the...
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    area. From 1999 through 2011, the United States Navy has sampled polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) levels in both Kuluk Bay, and sweeper cove within Kuluk Bay...
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    sewage and animal wastes; pollutants including heavy metals, polychlorinated biphenyls, radionuclides and hydrocarbons from sewage inputs; and diking...
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  • 75 toxic substances, including heavy metals, Agent Orange, and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs). Environmental Agency of the UK investigated who the "responsible...
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    pollutants including trace element (TEs) in soil and sewage sludge, Polychlorinated Biphenyl (PCBs), Trichloroethylene (TCE), Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon...
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    rest of the world. In the 21st century, blubber contains man-made polychlorinated biphenyl (PCBs), carcinogens that damage human nervous, immune, and reproductive...
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    polyaromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) from 630 μg/kg to 23,711 μg/kg and polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) in the range of 5 to 130.5 μg/kg, which puts these sediments...
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    Polychlorinated terphenyls (PCTs) are a group of chlorine derivatives of terphenyls. They are chemically related to polychlorinated biphenyls and have...
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    prevalent than other PCDFs. Dioxins and dioxin-like compounds Polychlorinated biphenyl "Proceedings of the Subregional Awareness Raising Workshop on Persistent...
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  • sediments and groundwater, are contaminated. The contaminants include polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), pesticides, volatile organic compounds (VOCs), semiVOCs...
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    oscillation, Gulf Stream, and North Atlantic drift. Recent work suggests polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) pollution may be a factor in the decline. TRAFFIC is introducing...
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    Safe SH, Sacchettini JC, Kelly JW (December 2004). "Hydroxylated polychlorinated biphenyls selectively bind transthyretin in blood and inhibit amyloidogenesis:...
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    (polar bears and killer whales), contamination of rivers (as with Polychlorinated biphenyl (PCBs) which bioaccumulate up the food chain), climate change and...
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    207/206Pb, total petroleum hydrocarbon, polyaromatic hydrocarbon and polychlorinated biphenyl pollution records" (PDF). Philosophical Transactions of the Royal...
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  • Look up PCB in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. PCB may refer to: Polychlorinated biphenyl, an organic chlorine compound, now recognized as an environmental...
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    Elsie M. Sunderland is a Canadian toxicologist and environmental scientist and the Gordon McKay Professor of Environmental Chemistry at Harvard University...
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