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Methyl Isobutyl Ketone - Environmental Health Criteria 117 

World Health Organization; United Nations Environment Programme; International Labour Organisation (1990)
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Methanol - Environmental Health Criteria 196 

United Nations Environment Programme; World Health Organization; International Labour Organisation (1997)
Methanol is a clear, colourless, volatile flammable liquid with a mild alcoholic odour when pure. It is miscible with water and many organic solvents and forms many binary azeotropic mixtures. Methanol occurs naturally ...
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Alpha and Beta-Hexachlorocyclohexanes - Environmental Health Criteria 123 

United Nations Environment Programme; World Health Organization; International Labour Organisation (1991)
Alpha-hexachlorocyclohexane (alpha-HCH) is a major by-product (65-70%) in the manufacture of lindane (> 99% gamma-HCH). Its solubility in water is low, but it is very soluble in organic solvents such as acetone, chloroform, ...
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Principles and Methods for the Assessment of Nephrotoxicity Associated with Exposure to Chemicals - Environmental Health Criteria 119 

United Nations Environment Programme; World Health Organization; International Labour Organisation (1991)
Nephrotoxicity can be defined as renal disease or dysfunction that arises as a direct or indirect result of exposure to medicines, and industrial or environmental chemicals. It is well established that toxic nephropathies ...
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Methanol Health and Safety Guide - Health and Safety Guide 105 

United Nations Environment Programme; World Health Organization; International Labour Organisation (1997)
Methanol is a colourless, polar, volatile, flammable liquid with a mild alcoholic odour when pure. It decomposes on heating producing carbon monoxide and formaldehyde. Methanol reacts violently with oxidizing materials ...
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Brodifacoum Health and Safety Guide - Health and Safety Guide 93 

United Nations Environment Programme; World Health Organization; International Labour Organisation (1995)
Brodifacoum is an off-white powder, which is stable in the solid form. Its solubility in water is very low (less than 10 mg/litre at 20 °C and pH 7); it is slightly soluble in benzene and soluble in acetone.
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Diflubenzuron Health and Safety Guide 99 

United Nations Environment Programme; World Health Organization; International Labour Organisation (1995)
Diflubenzuron is an odourless, white, crystalline solid. It is almost insoluble in water and poorly soluble in apolar organic solvents. In polar to very polar solvents, the solubility is moderate to good, e.g., in acetone ...
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Propachlor - Environmental Health Criteria 147 

United Nations Environment Programme; World Health Organization; International Labour Organisation (1993)
Propachlor is a pre-emergence and early post-emergence herbicide derived from acetanilide, and has been in use since 1965. The major formulations are as wettable powder, liquid flowable (suspension concentrate) and as ...
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1, 3-Dichloropropene, 1, 2-Diciiloropropane and Mixtures Health and Safety Guide 76 

United Nations Environment Programme; World Health Organization; International Labour Organisation (1992)
Commercial 1,3-dichioropropene is a mixture of cis- and trans- isomers and 92% pure. It may also be used in admixtures with 1 ,2-dibromoethane (Dorloe) or with 1 ,2dichloropropane (D-D , soil fumigant; Nemex Telone , and ...
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Inorganic Arsenic Compounds other than Arsine Health and Safety Guide - Health and Safety Guide 70 

United Nations Environment Programme; World Health Organization; International Labour Organisation (1992)
Arsenic compounds are often unstable, and in many cases are not well defined materials. For example, the arsenites of the alkali metals are slowly converted in solution to arsenates, by atmospheric oxygen. Arsenic trisulfide ...
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