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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A white or colorless crystalline compound, C12H10, used as a heat-transfer agent, in fungicides, and in organic synthesis.
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- noun organic chemistry, uncountable A
colourless solid hydrocarbon , C12H10, consisting of twobenzene rings linked together - noun organic chemistry, countable Any substituted or otherwise altered version of biphenyl, such as
PCBs
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Biphenyl 2,3-dioxygenase 1.14.12.18 1 Nomenclature EC number 1.14.12.18 Systematic name biphenyl, NADH: oxygen oxidoreductase (2,3-hydroxylating) Recommended name biphenyl
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Each PCB molecule consists of chlorine atoms attached to a double carbon-hydrogen ring (a "biphenyl" ring).
PCBs 2007
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Polybrominated biphenyl ether (PBDE) flame retardants are widespread environmental pollutants on a global scale, but the contamination is greatest in the United States.
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Polybrominated biphenyl ether (PBDE) flame retardants are widespread environmental pollutants on a global scale, but the contamination is greatest in the United States.
Dr. Douglas Fields: Flame Retardants: Extinguishers of Brain Development? 2010
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PCBs enter the environment as mixtures containing a variety of individual chlorinated biphenyl components, known as congeners, as well as impurities.
Public Health Statement for Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs) 2008
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We had lead in toys, formaldehyde in trailers, and biphenyl in baby bottles - as well as pathogens in our spinach, lettuce, beef, and now tomatoes.
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The other main product line, which some said was the main reason Monsanto bought Swann, comprised biphenyl and its chlorinated derivatives known as Arochlors, the now notorious PCBs.
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Plastics themselves can leach endocrine-disrupting chemicals like biphenyl A. Macdonald has come across "snow drifts" of spilled pellets outside plastic product manufacturing plants in Orange County.
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Plastics themselves can leach endocrine-disrupting chemicals like biphenyl A. Macdonald has come across "snow drifts" of spilled pellets outside plastic product manufacturing plants in Orange County.
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Inc. has completed an extensive PCB polychlorinated biphenyl study at WM's Kettleman Hills
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