Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. organic chemistry A polychlorinated hydrocarbon, C6Cl6, used as a fungicide in the treatment of bunt
Etymologies
- hexa- + chloro- + benzene (Wiktionary)
Examples
“A small but growing body of evidence in both animals and humans are finding a variety of hormone disruptors linked to obesity, including tributyltin, hexachlorobenzene (HCB), organotins, BPA, and PFOA.”
The Huffington Post: Christopher Gavigan: The Chemical Cocktail: Making Americans Overweight?
“Agent White was contaminated with hexachlorobenzene and nitrosamines, both known carcinogens.”
“McKone et al. [15] concluded that, with temperature increases, the risk hexachlorobenzene (HCB) presents to aquatic biota is likely to decrease slightly because HCB will partition less into water [16].”
“It will also increase by $18 million a provision for the expected cost of hexachlorobenzene waste disposal at the same site.”
“One issue she had was with the wording of the class: it's defined as "all individuals who were at CFB Gagetown between 1956 and the present and who claim they were exposed to dangerous levels of dioxin or hexachlorobenzene while on the base.”
“Other banned pesticides that have lingered in food for decades include dieldrin, toxaphene, chlordane, hexachlorocyclohexane and hexachlorobenzene.”
“Danish Environment Minister Karen Elleman had earlier approved the import of some 60,000 barrels of hexachlorobenzene (HCB) that Orica has had sitting in sheds alongside Botany”
“Environment Minister Peter Garrett on Wednesday granted an export permit to send the hexachlorobenzene (HCB) waste stockpiled at Botany Bay in Sydney to Denmark.”
“Environment Minister Peter Garrett today granted an export permit to send the hexachlorobenzene (HCB) waste stockpiled at Botany Bay in Sydney to Denmark.”
“Earlier this month the Danish Government postponed the first of 44 containers of the toxic chemical hexachlorobenzene HCB, which was to have been processed at Nyborg in central”
Lists
‘hexachlorobenzene’ hasn't been added to any lists yet.
Tweets
Looking for tweets for hexachlorobenzene.
Comments
No comments yet...
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.