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  2. Toluene - Wikipedia

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    Toluene is also found in cigarette smoke and car exhaust. If not in contact with air, toluene can remain unchanged in soil or water for a long time. [39] Toluene is a common solvent, e.g. for paints, paint thinners, silicone sealants, [40] many chemical reactants, rubber, printing ink, adhesives (glues), lacquers, leather tanners, and ...

  3. Marine food web - Wikipedia

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    A food web model is a network of food chains. Each food chain starts with a primary producer or autotroph, an organism, such as an alga or a plant, which is able to manufacture its own food. Next in the chain is an organism that feeds on the primary producer, and the chain continues in this way as a string of successive predators.

  4. Seafood - Wikipedia

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    Seafood is any form of sea life regarded as food by humans, prominently including fish and shellfish.Shellfish include various species of molluscs (e.g., bivalve molluscs such as clams, oysters, and mussels, and cephalopods such as octopus and squid), crustaceans (e.g. shrimp, crabs, and lobster), and echinoderms (e.g. sea cucumbers and sea urchins).

  5. What makes fish smell? It's a fragrance only another fish ...

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    Exactly why fish smell the way they do has to do with the natural process of decay and some physiology unique to sea creatures.

  6. Aromatic compound - Wikipedia

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    Heteroarenes are aromatic compounds, where at least one methine or vinylene (-C= or -CH=CH-) group is replaced by a heteroatom: oxygen, nitrogen, or sulfur. [3] Examples of non-benzene compounds with aromatic properties are furan, a heterocyclic compound with a five-membered ring that includes a single oxygen atom, and pyridine, a heterocyclic compound with a six-membered ring containing one ...

  7. Menhaden - Wikipedia

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    Menhaden, also known as mossbunker, bunker, and "the most important fish in the sea", [1] are forage fish of the genera Brevoortia and Ethmidium, two genera of marine fish in the order Clupeiformes. Menhaden is a blend of poghaden ( pogy for short) and an Algonquian word akin to Narragansett munnawhatteaûg , derived from munnohquohteau ("he ...

  8. Find Out Why These Octopuses Throw Things at Each Other - AOL

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    Jervis Bay is home to a large number of gloomy octopuses that are drawn to the area for food and perfect conditions for making their dens. Possibly the close living quarters are too close for comfort.

  9. Soil contamination - Wikipedia

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    DDT found in fish that formed part of the human food chain caused concern, but the levels found in the liver, kidney and brain tissues was less than 1 ppm and in fat was 10 ppm, which was below the level likely to cause harm. However, DDT was banned in the UK and the United States to stop the further buildup of it in the food chain.