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Toxics A to Z : a guide to everyday pollution hazards
- Title
- Toxics A to Z : a guide to everyday pollution hazards / John Harte [and others].
- Publication
- Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1991.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | RA1213 .T76 1991 | Off-site |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Harte, John, 1939-
- Description
- xviii, 479 pages : illustrations; 26 cm
- Summary
- "Reliable and easily understandable information about the most frequently encountered toxic dangers; where such dangers are most likely to be found; how to recogize them and the symptoms that exposure to them can cause; and above all, how chronic and acute exposure can be reduced or avoided altogether ... information on over 100 of the most common and potentially hazardous toxics in our environment"--Page xi.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Popular works.
- Popular Work
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- pt. 1. All about toxics. Fundamentals : Toxics in perspective ; The language of toxics -- Some basic medical aspects of the toxics problem : Testing and classification of toxics ; Toxics in the body -- The four major sources of toxic exposure : Toxics in air ; Toxics in water ; Toxics in food ; Toxics in consumer products -- Toxics and the environment : Movement of toxics through the environment ; Toxics in the biosphere ; Three global environmental hazards of pollutants -- Four special groups of toxics : Toxic metals ; Petrochemicals ; Pesticides ; Radiation -- Managing toxics : The waste crisis: sources and solutions ; Regulating toxics -- pt. 2. A guide to commonly encountered toxics.
- ISBN
- 0520072235
- 9780520072237
- 0520072243
- 9780520072244
- LCCN
- 90025860
- OCLC
- ocm22859090
- 22859090
- SCSB-1987591
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library