Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A white crystalline benzene derivative, C6Cl6, formerly used as a fungicide to control bunt. Its use in the United States was banned in 1965 due to high toxicity and adverse environmental effects.
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- noun organic chemistry A
polychlorinated hydrocarbon , C6Cl6, used as afungicide in the treatment ofbunt
Etymologies
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Examples
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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.
Christopher Gavigan: The Chemical Cocktail: Making Americans Overweight? 2010
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Agent White was contaminated with hexachlorobenzene and nitrosamines, both known carcinogens.
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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].
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Environment Minister Peter Garrett on Wednesday granted an export permit to send the hexachlorobenzene (HCB) waste stockpiled at Botany Bay in Sydney to Denmark.
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Environment Minister Peter Garrett on Wednesday granted an export permit to send the hexachlorobenzene (HCB) waste stockpiled at Botany Bay in Sydney to Denmark.
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It will also increase by $18 million a provision for the expected cost of hexachlorobenzene waste disposal at the same site.
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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."
The Telegram: Local News Rosie Gillingham 2010
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Environment Minister Peter Garrett today granted an export permit to send the hexachlorobenzene (HCB) waste stockpiled at Botany Bay in Sydney to Denmark.
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Other banned pesticides that have lingered in food for decades include dieldrin, toxaphene, chlordane, hexachlorocyclohexane and hexachlorobenzene.
Signs of the Times 2010
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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
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