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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. Odor detection threshold - Wikipedia

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    Threshold in a food is dependent upon: The threshold of the aroma in air. Concentration in the food. Solubility in oil and water. Partition coefficient between the air and the food. The pH of the food. Some aroma compounds are affected by the pH: weak organic acids are protonated at low pH making them less soluble and hence more volatile.

  4. Cresol - Wikipedia

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    Like other types of phenols, they are slowly oxidized by exposure to air, and the resulting impurities often give the samples a yellow to brownish red tint. Cresols have an odor characteristic to that of other simple phenols, reminiscent to some of a " coal tar " smell.

  5. Food poisoning is extremely common. But that doesn't ... - AOL

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    Food poisoning, also known as foodborne illness, is a common sickness caused by swallowing food or liquids that contain harmful bacteria, viruses or parasites, and sometimes even chemicals.

  6. Should you throw out your black plastic cooking utensils? - AOL

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    We still don’t know how much of the chemicals actually make their way into the food." And of the amount that does make it into food, only a certain portion will be taken in by the body, Alan says.

  7. TNT - Wikipedia

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    The rinse water from sulfitation is known as red water and is a significant pollutant and waste product of TNT manufacture. [12] Control of nitrogen oxides in feed nitric acid is very important because free nitrogen dioxide can result in oxidation of the methyl group of toluene.

  8. Volatile organic compound - Wikipedia

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    Dermal exposure to VOCs like formaldehyde and toluene downregulate antimicrobial peptides on the skin like cathelicidin LL-37, human β-defensin 2 and 3. [66] Xylene and formaldehyde worsen allergic inflammation in animal models. [67] Toluene also increases the dysregulation of filaggrin: a key protein in dermal regulation.

  9. Trichloroethylene - Wikipedia

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    Trichloroethylene (TCE) is a halocarbon with the formula C 2 HCl 3, commonly used as an industrial metal degreasing solvent.It is a clear, colourless, non-flammable, volatile liquid with a chloroform-like pleasant mild smell [3] and sweet taste. [9]