Carcinogens
Substances and environmental factors that can cause cancer or contribute to the growth of abnormal calls in the body. Certain toxic chemicals, pollutants such as cigarette smoke are considered as carcinogens.
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Carcinogen: Any substance that can cause or aggravate cancer.
Catalyst: A substance that changes the speed or yield of a chemical reaction without being consumed or chemically changed by the chemical reaction.
carcinogenicity
Process of induction of malignant neoplasms, and thus cancer, by chemical, physical or biological agents.
carcinogenicity test
Long term (chronic) test designed to detect any possible carcinogenic effect of a test substance.
carcinogens - substances that cause cancer, such as tar.
carpooling - sharing a car to a destination to reduce fuel use, pollution and travel costs.
Carcinogen: Any substance that can cause or aggravate cancer.
Carrier: 1. The inert liquid or solid material in a pesticide product that serves as a delivery vehicle for the active ingredient.
Carcinogen: Any dissolved pollutant that can induce cancer.
Cartridge filter: Disposable filter device that has a filter range of 0.1 micron to 100 microns.
Carcinogen: Any substance that can cause or aggravate cancer.
Cask: A thick-walled container (usually lead) used to transport radioactive material. Also called a coffin.
Carcinogen
Any substance that can cause or contribute to the production of cancer.
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Carcinogen: substance which causes cancer.
Chemical Oxygen Demand (COD): laboratory measurement of the amount of oxygen used in chemical reactions that occur in water as a result of the addition of wastes.
Carcinogen
A substance that causes cancer.
Case study
A medical or epidemiologic evaluation of one person or a small group of people to gather information about specific health conditions and past exposures.
carcinogen Any substance which tends to produce cancer in an organism.
carcinogenic Cancer producing.
carnivore An organism that eats living animals.
Carcinogen: A substance that can cause or contribute to cancer.
Caustic: Able to burn, corrode, dissolve, or eat away other substances.
Carcinogens are agents, usually chemical, that promote cancer.
Carrying capacity is the maximum number of individuals of a defined species that a given environment can support over the long term.
Carcinogen: A cancer-causing substance. (See also cancer.)
Carl Moyer Fund: A multi-million dollar incentive grant program designed to encourage reduction of emissions from heavy-duty engines.
C carcinogenicity
Definition (english only)
The ability or tendency of a substance or physical agent to cause or produce cancer.
Carcinogen: A substance that causes cancer.
Carbon Adsorption: A treatment system in which contaminants are removed by forcing water or air through tanks containing activated carbon, ...
Carcinogenic or Carcinogen
Capable of causing cancer. A suspected carcinogen is a substance that may cause cancer in humans or animals but for which the evidence is not conclusive. ...
Carcinogenic Assessment Group
CAIR
Comprehensive Assessment of Information Rule ...
CARCINOGEN A carcinogen is any substance that is capable of causing cancer in animal tissues. Doctors and scientists do not fully understand how carcinogens cause cancer, but much is known about the kinds of substances that cause the cancers.
Toxic: Poisonous, carcinogenic, or otherwise harmful to life.
Turbidity: A measure of material, usually fine sediments, suspended in water; determined by passing light through a water sample.
Carcinogen Any substance known to promote cancer. Carrying Capacity: The amount of use an environmental area can sustain long-term without loss of quality.
Carcinogen Assessment Group.
calcium carbonate (CACO3 ) equivalent. An expression of the concentration of specified constituents in water in terms of their equivalent value to calcium carbonate.
ACP- Agriculture Control Program (Water Quality Management); ACP- Air Carcinogen Policy
ACQUIRE- Aquatic Information Retrieval
ACQR- Air Quality Control Region
ACS- American Chemical Society
ACT- Action
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carcinogen A substance which tends to produce cancer in a living organism.catchment area of an aquiferArea that comprises the intake area and all areas that contribute surface water to the intake area of aquifers.
Formaldehyde - CH2O, A colorless, pungent, carcinogenic, and toxic gas which can irritate membranes. It is used as formalin in its aqueous state (37 %). Formaldehyde is reactive due to its carbonyl functional group.
Radon (Rn) gas, a carcinogen, is exuded from the Earth and trapped inside houses. Researchers have found that radon gas is responsible for over 1,800 deaths annually in the United Kingdom.
Secondhand smoke has been designated as a known human carcinogen by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the National Toxicology Program, and the International Agency for Research on Cancer.
A standard of protection to prevent exposure to potentially non-carcinogenic or carcinogenic chemicals in potable water. EDWLs are derived using EPA toxicity standards for chemicals without established MCLs.
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Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as a "probable human carcinogen" and found frequently in streams and rivers, particularly following floods and periods of heavy rain.
Protective level of exposure related to potentially non-carcinogenic effects of chemicals that are also known to cause cancer.
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A mathematical model based on the biological theory that a single "hit" of some minimum critical amount of a carcinogen at a cellular target such as DNA can start an irreversible series events leading to a tumour.
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The term 'health hazard' includes chemicals which are carcinogens, toxic or highly toxic agents, reproductive toxins, irritants, corrosives, sensitizers, hepatotoxins (liver damage), nephrotoxins (kidney damage), neurotoxins (nervous system damage), ...
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