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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 (1,213 words) - 09:20, 23 February 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 (5,174 words) - 22:16, 3 June 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...
    229 KB (23,275 words) - 06:56, 11 June 2024
  • approach measures the exposures to pollutants by monitoring the pollutant concentrations reaching the respondents. The pollutant concentrations are directly...
    23 KB (2,825 words) - 23:58, 8 April 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...
    58 KB (8,388 words) - 10:22, 17 June 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...
    146 KB (16,616 words) - 19:41, 27 April 2024
  • Environmental Justice Analysis: Determinants of Household-Level Hazardous Air Pollutant Exposure in Greater Houston". Annals of the Association of American Geographers...
    107 KB (11,705 words) - 04:34, 8 June 2024
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    Toxicity (redirect from Acute exposure)
    https://www.epa.gov/sites/production/files/2015-09/documents/priority-pollutant-list-epa.pdf [bare URL PDF] Environmental neurotoxicology. National Research...
    27 KB (3,097 words) - 01:22, 13 June 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 (4,183 words) - 19:39, 21 April 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...
    97 KB (10,251 words) - 11:05, 26 May 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) - 07:32, 12 April 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...
    65 KB (5,229 words) - 13:57, 14 June 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
  • 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) - 02:13, 13 May 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) - 22:49, 16 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Brain health and pollution
    associations between exposure to air pollution and reduced white matter volume. Evidence suggests that long-term exposure to air pollutants is associated with...
    69 KB (6,960 words) - 07:01, 10 June 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 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...
    38 KB (5,154 words) - 15:02, 1 May 2024
  • studies have demonstrated how exposure to environmental pollutants, such as heavy metals, pesticides, and air pollutants, can induce epigenetic changes...
    19 KB (2,414 words) - 22:13, 19 May 2024
  • is a source of toxic vehicle pollutants. Previous studies have found correlations between exposure to vehicle pollutants and certain diseases such as...
    21 KB (2,680 words) - 05:13, 6 May 2024
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