Poisonous gases that can harm people and the environment. Some gases have a strong smell, for example sulphur dioxide and methane, while others, such as carbon monoxide, do not have any smell at all.
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Poisonous, carcinogenic, or otherwise directly harmful to life.
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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.
A very poisonous, colorless and odorless gas formed when carbon-containing matter burns incompletely, as in automobile engines or in charcoal grills used indoors without proper ventilation.
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toxin
Poisonous substance produced by a biological organism such as a microbe, animal, plant or fungus.
Note: Examples are botulinum toxin, tetrodotoxin, pyrrolizidine alkaloids and amanitin.
toxic - poisonous.
toxic emissions - poisonous chemicals discharged to air, water, or land.
toxic sites - land contaminated with toxic pollution, usually unsuitable for human habitation.
A colorless, nonpoisonous, flammable gas created by anaerobic decomposition of organic compounds. A major component of natural gas used in the home.
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Also, any poisonous effect that results from a single short-term exposure to a toxic substance. Air Pollution - Airborne contaminants or pollutants that adversely affect the environment or human health.
acute toxicity Any poisonous effect produced within a short period of time, resulting in severe biological harm and often death.
It poisonous if taken internally. Like ethanol it is a fine fuel that can be mixed with gasoline. It shares much the same drawbacks of ethanol. The advantage is you can use waste wood chips that might otherwise just be discarded or burned.
Carbon Monoxide (CO) - A colorless, odorless, poisonous gas, produced by incomplete burning of carbon-based fuels, including gasoline, oil and wood.
Chlorine gas is an extremely reactive and poisonous substance that rarely occurs in nature, but bonds quickly with organic matter to form a new class of chemicals called Organochlorines.
Phenol - 1) A corrosive poisonous crystalline acidic compound present in coal tar and wood tar that in dilute solutions is used as a disinfectant and 2) any of various acidic compounds analogous to phenols and regarded as hydroxyl derivatives of ...
Colourless, odourless, tasteless, non-corrosive, highly poisonous gas of about the same density as that of air. Very flammable, burning in air with bright blue flame.
The ability of a substance to cause poisonous effects resulting in severe biological harm or death soon after a single exposure or dose, usually within 24 hours.
Acute Toxicity - The ability of a substance to cause poisonous effects resulting in severe biological harm or death soon after a single exposure or dose.
Non-toxic: Something that is not toxic or poisonous.
One Percent for the Planet: An organization consisting of businesses that pledge to give at least 1% of their total annual revenues to charities and organizations that help the natural ...
Carbon Monoxide
A highly poisonous gas produced when fuel is burnt. It is mainly emitted from car exhausts.
Catalytic Converters
A filter fitted to car exhausts to help remove pollution.
Neuro-toxicity: Exerting a destructive or poisonous effect on nerve tissue.
Nitrification: The process whereby ammonia in wastewater is oxidized to nitrite and then to nitrate by bacterial or chemical reactions.
The capacity of a substance to cause long-term poisonous health effects in humans, animals, fish, and other organisms.. (See acute toxicity.)
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toxic A substance that is poisonous to an organism upon ingestion, absorption, or physical contact.
toxicant A harmful substance or agent that may injure an exposed organism.
Explosive / Reactive: capable of causing an explosion or releasing poisonous fumes when exposed to air, water, or other chemicals.
Formulation: the combination of active and inactive (inert) ingredients which make up a pesticide.
Toxicity - The amount of a poisonous substance that exists in a given material. Toxins can be naturally occurring or man-made, and often are linked to water.
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Barium, for instance, is used to produce brilliant green colors in fireworks displays, despite being poisonous and radioactive. Copper compounds are used to produce blue colors, even though they contain dioxin, which has been linked to cancer.
Carbon dioxide: A colourless, odourless, non-poisonous gas, which results from fossil fuel combustion and is normally a part of the air.
Alpine pennycress is therefore known as a hyperaccumulator of these metals, which in unnaturally high levels would be poisonous to many plants. Another example of a hyperaccumulator is the bracken fern.
Hydrogen Sulfide (H2S): A colorless, flammable, poisonous compound having a characteristic rotten-egg odor. It is used in industrial processes and may be emitted into the air.
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Acute Toxicity: The ability of a substance to cause severe biological harm or death soon after a single exposure or dose. Also, any poisonous effect resulting from a single short-term exposure to a toxic substance.
Industrial Waste includes waste from: commercial garages / maintenance premises; laboratories and scientific research associations; workshops; dredging and tunnelling waste; clinical waste; aircraft, poisonous or noxious waste from certain ...
Chronic toxicity
The capacity of a substance to cause long-term poisonous human health effects.(1) ...
Carbon dioxide (CO2) - A colorless, odorless, non-poisonous gas that exists in trace quantities (less than 400 parts per million) in ambient air. Carbon dioxide is a product of fossil fuel combustion.
Most of these "pump" theories were disproved by the observation that tree stems could still pull up poisonous liquid which would, of course, kill any living pumping cells.
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