• Polychlorinated dibenzodioxins (PCDDs), or simply dioxins, are a group of long-lived polyhalogenated organic compounds that are primarily anthropogenic...
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    commonly used for a family of derivatives of 1,4-dioxin, known as polychlorinated dibenzodioxins (PCDDs). 1,4-Dioxin can be prepared by cycloaddition, namely...
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    dibenzofuran, with properties and chemical structures similar to polychlorinated dibenzodioxins. These groups together are often inaccurately called dioxins...
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    plane. It renders their structure similar to polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins (PCDDs) and polychlorinated dibenzofurans, and allows them to act like PCDDs...
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    in the six-membered dioxin ring. Dibenzodioxin is the carbon skeleton of the poisonous polychlorinated dibenzodioxins (PCDDs), often called dioxins. The...
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    congeners. Similarly polychlorinated dibenzodioxins, polychlorinated dibenzofurans, polychlorinated terphenyls, polychlorinated naphthalene, polychloro...
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    2,3,7,8-Tetrachlorodibenzodioxin (category Dibenzodioxins)
    TCDD is the most potent compound (congener) of its series (polychlorinated dibenzodioxins, known as PCDDs or simply dioxins) and became known as a contaminant...
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  • dioxin-like compounds, a diverse class of polychlorinated chemical compounds, including polychlorinated dibenzodioxins (PCDDs) and dibenzofurans (PCDFs), that...
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    the U.S. or EU. There have also been some unusual releases of polychlorinated dibenzodioxins, commonly called dioxins for simplicity, such as TCDD. Pollution...
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    the most prevalent being benzene. Also present was dioxin (polychlorinated dibenzodioxins) in the water, a very hazardous substance. Dioxin pollution...
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  • polychlorinated dibenzodioxins (PCDDs) and polychlorinated dibenzofurans (PCDFs), dioxins, and other toxic chemicals. It can produce polychlorinated biphenyls...
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    contained high levels of toxic polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), polychlorinated dibenzodioxins (PCDDs) and polychlorinated dibenzofurans (PCDFs). Further...
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    controversial due to the possibility for toxin production. Reportedly, polychlorinated dibenzodioxins and furans are produced during the combustion process and there...
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    8-tetrachlorodibenzodioxin, a potent carcinogen, and other polychlorinated dibenzodioxins. Pyrolysis of fluoropolymers, e.g. teflon, in presence of oxygen...
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    Octachlorodibenzodioxin (category Dibenzodioxins)
    Octachlorodibenzodioxin (abbreviated as OCDD or OctaCDD) is one of polychlorinated dibenzodioxins (PCDDs). When compared to 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzodioxin (TCDD)...
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    (NMVOCs), polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), polychlorinated dibenzodioxins (PCDDs), polychlorinated dibenzofurans (PCDFs), etc. All of these gases...
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  • foams, and textiles. They are structurally akin to polychlorinated diphenyl ethers (PCDEs), polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and other polyhalogenated compounds...
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    dozen") listed in three categories. Two chemicals, hexachlorobenzene and polychlorinated biphenyls, were listed in both categories A and C. Currently, five...
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    of PeCB may also result in the formation of polychlorinated dibenzodioxins ("dioxins") and polychlorinated dibenzofurans. Chlorobenzenes—different numbers...
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  • environmental persistence. Examples of these chemicals include polychlorinated dibenzodioxins, furans, biphenyls, DDT and its metabolites, and dieldrin. The...
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    Air Force, it contained high levels of the known carcinogen polychlorinated dibenzodioxin, studies since confirmed by the Oregon Health Sciences University...
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    there is still breast development. Dioxins (most notably the polychlorinated dibenzodioxins) are chemicals that are produced when chlorinated products are...
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    technical grade of this substance may contain polychlorinated dibenzodioxins (PCDDs), polychlorinated dibenzofurans (PCDFs), and other contaminants....
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    discovered were synthetic aromatic hydrocarbons such as the polychlorinated dibenzodioxins, dibenzofurans, biphenyls and the non-chlorinated naphthoflavones...
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  • build up in the skull Chlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxin(s), a.k.a. polychlorinated dibenzodioxins Collaborative Drug Discovery, a private software company with...
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    "defective" oil supplied by Mr. Tierney and his company. See also Polychlorinated dibenzodioxins 2013 horse meat scandal List of food contamination incidents...
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    Heptachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (category Dibenzodioxins)
    2,3,4,6,7,8-HpCDD) is a polychlorinated derivative of dibenzo-p-dioxin and can therefore be categorized as a polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxin (PCDD),...
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    unaffected after a 200-day diet consisting of 0.025 – 0.4% of DBF. The polychlorinated dibenzofurans are however among the potentially toxic dioxins and dioxin-like...
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  • waste incinerators makes a small contribution to polychlorinated dibenzodioxins and polychlorinated biphenyls in breast milk. SCAMP studied how mobile...
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  • toxicity of polyhalogenated aromatic hydrocarbons, e.g. polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), dibenzodioxins (PCDDs), dibenzofurans (PCDFs) and various pesticides...
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