Pollutant Properties
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- Created on: 17-05-15 13:38
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- Properties of Pollutants
- Toxicity
- A measure of how poisonous a substance is
- Methyl Iso-cyanate
- A measure of how poisonous a substance is
- Neurotoxicity
- A poison that targets the nervous system around the brain
- Dimethyl Mercury
- A poison that targets the nervous system around the brain
- Specificity
- A measure of the differing toxicities of a substance to different organisms
- Persistence
- A measure of how long a pollutant lasts in the environment before being broken down
- DDT
- A measure of how long a pollutant lasts in the environment before being broken down
- Degradability
- Bio
- Whether a material can be broken down by living organisms
- Methyl - Parathion
- Photo
- If a material is broken down by sunlight
- PCB
- Bio
- Solubility
- Water
- Soluble in water
- Tetrachloro-ethene
- Soluble in water
- Lipo
- Soluble in fat
- Mercury
- DDT
- Soluble in fat
- Water
- Bioaccumulation
- The increase in concentration of a substance in living tissue
- Mercury
- Biomagnification
- The progressive bioaccumulation of a material along a food chain
- DDT
- The progressive bioaccumulation of a material along a food chain
- Syngerism
- The combined effect of two or more pollutants is greater than the sum of the individual effects
- 1 + 1 = >2
- The combined effect of two or more pollutants is greater than the sum of the individual effects
- Mutagenicity
- The measure of how much a material or energy from can change DNA structure
- PCB
- Chloroform
- The measure of how much a material or energy from can change DNA structure
- Carcinogenicity
- A mutagen that can cause cancer
- PCB
- Methyl Iso-cynanate
- Teratogenicity
- A measure of how much a substance can cause non-inherited birth abnormalities
- PCB
- Benzene
- A measure of how much a substance can cause non-inherited birth abnormalities
- Toxicity
- Property
- Definition
- Related Factor
- Example
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