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| Persistent Organic Pollutants |
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| Toxic organic pollutants that adversely affect human health and the environment around the world. |
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| U.N. Treaty, 91 countries, reduce/eliminate production/release of 12 p.o.p.'s. 2001. |
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| Why P.O.P.'s are a concern |
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| Toxicity, persistence, long-range transport, bioaccumulation. |
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| Dr. Kelly's favorite name for a thing that kills shit |
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| Increase in conc. of a chemical in an organism compared to that in the ambient medium in which it lives. |
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| Ratio of contaminant in organism to that in ambient medium. |
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| Process by which an organism takes up and retains a contaminant (rate of intake vs. rate of elimination). |
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| A process that results in a chemical becoming increasingly concentrated at successively higher trophic levels. |
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| Non-polar pollutants cling to surface of sediment and debris. |
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| Octanol Water Partition Coefficient |
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| Kow = Conc. in octanol / Conc. in water |
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| Uses for Polychlorinated Biphenyls |
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| Fire preventative/insulator in the manufacture of transformers and capacitors. |
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| First-Order Decay of PCBs |
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| Aldrin, dieldrin, chlordane, DDT, endrin, mirex, heptachlor, hexachlorobenzene, PCBs, toxaphene, dioxins, furans. |
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| Benzene ring with 6 chlorines. |
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| Two phenyl rings with chlorines attached. |
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| Ethane (2 C's) one with 3 Cl's attached, 2 phenyl rings attached to other C, 1 Cl on each end, H attached to C. |
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| Organochlorine Pesticides |
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| Stable, low water solubility, high fat solubility, toxic to target, not humans. |
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| Bioconcentration Factor Equation |
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| BCF = conc. in organism / conc. in ambient medium |
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| Methoxychlor, Toxaphene, Camphene |
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| Naturally produced by pine trees, extracted. |
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| Related chemicals, 209 PCBs. |
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| Maximum Contaminant Level |
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