Volatile Organic Compound
In environmental science, the term usually refers to the hydrocarbons, especially those found in air pollution. In 1988, the five most abundant of these hydrocarbons in urban...
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Vocs (Volatile Organic Compounds)
Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) are small organic molecules that take part in photochemical reactions in the atmosphere, resulting in smog. They have low boiling po...
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VOCs, also known as Volatile Organic Compounds contain carbon atoms. VOCs evaporate quickly from water into air at room temperatures. They are used in the production of a wide variety of industrial, c...
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An environmental research institute has urged the government to
take measures to deal with ozone concentrations near the earth's
surface, which have been increasing in Japan for 25 years and ...
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Sinclair Oil Corp., has agreed to pay $2.45 million in civil penalties and reduce emissions from three of its refineries in Wyoming and Oklahoma as part of a clean air settlement with the governmen...
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The Environmental Protection Agency, following a congressional mandate, finalized plans Tuesday for new standards to boost the use of renewable fuels such as ethanol and biodiesel.Refiners will be ...
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A three-year study into a cluster of childhood leukemia cases in Sierra Vista detected no toxic exposures that could have caused the illnesses, federal health officials said.
"We don't kno...
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Pollution has tainted even the most remote areas of Glacier National Park, and some fish in backcountry waters are so contaminated they could endanger the wildlife eating them, a federal scientist ...
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A total of 28 out of Japan's 47 prefectures have issued
photochemical smog warnings since the start of this year, the largest
number ever. Warnings were issued in Oita Prefecture, on the
sou...
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Boeing Co. has snagged hundreds of orders for its new 787 with a sales pitch that leans heavily on the light, sturdy carbon-fiber composites replacing most of the aluminum on the plane to make it g...
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If real-time analysis of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) is important to you, selected ionflow tube mass spectrometry (SIFT-MS) might be the technique you are looking for. Utilizing chemical ioni...
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We asked. You answered. Of readers polled online, 69 percent are now more concerned with "going green" than before they became pregnant. Why? Not just because choosing eco-friendly products and...
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Hyphenation of gas chromatography (GC) with mass spectrometry (MS) allows identification and quantification of a wide range of trace amounts of GC-amenable compounds in complex matrices. Until now,...
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Volatile Organic Compound
Vocs (Volatile Organic Compounds)
Vocs
Ozone levels up for 25 yrs, causing photochemical smog: institute
