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  2. Polychlorinated biphenyl - Wikipedia

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    PCBs biomagnify up the food web and are present in fish and overflow of contaminated aquifers. [57] Human infants are exposed to PCBs through breast milk or by intrauterine exposure through transplacental transfer of PCBs [56] and are at the top of the food chain. [58]: 249ff

  3. Peter's vision of a sheet with animals - Wikipedia

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    Peter's vision of a sheet with animals, the vision painted by Domenico Fetti (1619) Illustration from Treasures of the Bible by Henry Davenport Northrop, 1894. According to the Acts of the Apostles, chapter 10, Saint Peter had a vision of a vessel (Greek: σκεῦος, skeuos; "a certain vessel descending upon him, as it had been a great sheet knit at the four corners") full of animals being ...

  4. Bioremediation of polychlorinated biphenyls - Wikipedia

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    Bioremediation of PCBs is the use of microorganisms to degrade PCBs from contaminated sites, relying on multiple microorganisms' co-metabolism. Anaerobic microorganisms dechlorinate PCBs first, and other microorganisms that are capable of doing BH pathway can break down the dechlorinated PCBs to usable intermediates like acyl-CoA or carbon ...

  5. Dioxins and dioxin-like compounds - Wikipedia

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    Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), derived from biphenyl, of which 12 are "dioxin-like". Under certain conditions PCBs may form dibenzofurans through partial oxidation. Polybrominated analogs of the above classes may have similar effects. "Dioxin" can also refer to 1,4-dioxin or p-dioxin, the basic chemical unit of the more complex dioxins. This ...

  6. Microplastics Are in All of Us. Just How Bad Is That, Really?

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    Woodruff, who has studied the effect of some chemicals found in plastics on human health, reproduction, and development for two decades, first started looking into microplastics in 2021.

  7. Talk:Polychlorinated biphenyl - Wikipedia

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    Expert groups convened by U.S. government agencies and international institutions to review animal and human data related to PCBs have concluded that PCBs are immunotoxic, including the most recent review in February 2013 by the World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) (Lauby-Secretan et al., 2013 [27 ...

  8. Chelev - Wikipedia

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    Chelev (Hebrew: חֵלֶב, ḥēleḇ), "suet", is the animal fats that the Torah prohibits Jews and Israelites from eating. [1] Only the chelev of animals that are of the sort from which offerings can be brought in the Tabernacle or Temple are prohibited (Leviticus 7:25).

  9. Today’s NYT ‘Strands’ Hints, Spangram and Answers for ...

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    According to the New York Times, here's exactly how to play Strands: Find theme words to fill the board. Theme words stay highlighted in blue when found.