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  • Thumbnail for Pollutant
    A pollutant or novel entity is a substance or energy introduced into the environment that has undesired effects, or adversely affects the usefulness of...
    11 KB (1,203 words) - 07:40, 7 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Persistent organic pollutant
    Persistent organic pollutants (POPs) are organic compounds that are resistant to degradation through chemical, biological, and photolytic processes. They...
    39 KB (5,194 words) - 21:39, 9 August 2024
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    Air pollution (redirect from Air pollutant)
    Individual reactions to air pollutants depend on the type of pollutant a person is exposed to, the degree of exposure, and the individual's health status...
    233 KB (23,467 words) - 08:39, 4 November 2024
  • approach measures the exposures to pollutants by monitoring the pollutant concentrations reaching the respondents. The pollutant concentrations are directly...
    23 KB (2,873 words) - 20:59, 28 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Water pollution
    (these are also referred to as waterborne diseases). Persistent exposure to pollutants through water are environmental health hazards, which can increase...
    61 KB (8,724 words) - 20:51, 2 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Nitrogen dioxide poisoning
    Nitrogen dioxide poisoning (category Hazardous air pollutants)
    frequency, and intensity of exposure. Nitrogen dioxide is an irritant of the mucous membrane linked with another air pollutant that causes pulmonary diseases...
    35 KB (4,230 words) - 10:51, 5 November 2024
  • Environmental Justice Analysis: Determinants of Household-Level Hazardous Air Pollutant Exposure in Greater Houston". Annals of the Association of American Geographers...
    107 KB (11,764 words) - 02:14, 1 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Endocrine disruptor
    containing pollutants and the decrease in the quality of building ventilation, indoor air has become a significant source of pollutant exposure. Residents...
    150 KB (17,094 words) - 14:34, 1 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Air quality index
    Air Pollution Index, and Singapore's Pollutant Standards Index. Computation of the AQI requires an air pollutant concentration over a specified averaging...
    64 KB (4,996 words) - 06:29, 4 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Lead–crime hypothesis
    even low levels of exposure began in the 1970s; in the decades since, scientists have concluded that no safe threshold for lead exposure exists. The major...
    16 KB (1,860 words) - 21:39, 12 May 2024
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    Toxicity (redirect from Acute exposure)
    Environmental Hazards?" Reference. IAC Publishing, n.d. Web. "Priority Pollutant List" (PDF). December 2014. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2024-05-15...
    30 KB (3,274 words) - 10:06, 15 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Anne C. Steinemann
    on "pollutant exposures and associated health effects, including topics of indoor air quality, consumer product testing and evaluation, exposure assessment...
    16 KB (1,496 words) - 11:54, 6 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Indoor air quality
    is evaluated through collection of air samples, monitoring human exposure to pollutants, analysis of building surfaces, and computer modeling of air flow...
    101 KB (10,730 words) - 11:15, 5 November 2024
  • Chlordane (category Persistent organic pollutants under the Stockholm Convention)
    organic pollutants (POP), classified among the "dirty dozen" and banned by the 2001 Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants. Exposure to chlordane/heptachlor...
    20 KB (2,141 words) - 01:07, 13 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Legacy pollution
    Legacy pollution or legacy pollutants are persistent materials in the environment that were created through a polluting industry or process that have polluting...
    37 KB (5,186 words) - 01:24, 2 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Pollutant Standards Index
    The Pollutant Standards Index (PSI) is a type of air quality index used in Singapore, which is a number used to indicate the level of pollutants in air...
    12 KB (1,291 words) - 11:49, 3 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for National Ambient Air Quality Standards
    pronounced /ˈnæks/ naks) are limits on atmospheric concentration of six pollutants that cause smog, acid rain, and other health hazards. Established by the...
    24 KB (2,534 words) - 19:51, 7 August 2024
  • route of exposure that occurs when an individual breathes in polluted air which enters the respiratory tract. Identification of the pollutant uptake by...
    26 KB (3,250 words) - 21:18, 16 August 2024
  • is the concentration of the air pollutant that person p experiences in microenvironment i, Ep is the integrated exposure for person p and m is the number...
    5 KB (658 words) - 07:39, 12 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Radiation exposure
    Radiation exposure is a measure of the ionization of air due to ionizing radiation from photons. It is defined as the electric charge freed by such radiation...
    33 KB (3,707 words) - 12:06, 30 August 2024
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