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been reported to the Notional Institute tor Occupational Siriftiy Health by Met:! Oil. According to NIOSH. the Mobil data are the first trom either animats or humans to suggest a correlation between exposure to poly chlorinated biphenyls and increased skin ard pancreatic cancers. Mobil reports tnat eight cancers developed between 1957 and 1975 among 92 RD and refinery
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the U.S. to use ESR to study the role jf paramag molecules in cellular chemistry and m ihadc <*!cc
workers exposed far five or six years in the late 1940's
of various diseases. Wisconsin researchers air
and eerly 1950`s to varying levels ol Aroctor 1254, a mixture of PC8's. Of the eight cancers, three were malignant melanomas, or sxm cancers, <*>>*
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The exact amount ol DDT in meat doesn't seem to matter to rats.-There were no differences in OOT retention for
is being offered this fail by the Stats University a York. Stony Brook. The new major is sponsored
nta led lor 120 days with cocked beef containing ' ' by .the chemistry and materials science depart!
amounts ol the pesticide moderately above and below the FDA tolerance level ol 5 ppm in rendered lat. ac cording, to Dr. Robert W. Rogers and coworkers at
and is aimed at students interested in setid chemistry and materials technology. The pregrr . cuses on modern industrial processes and is det :
Mississippi State University. Other rats wera led meat with DOT added to double the original concentrations ol 4.25 ppm and 7.55 ppm. Adding OOT increased its retention in rats, but toxicity effects measured by mixed
to provide background in poiymerc materials, conductor processing, modern technology ana
ranmenlal problems in industry, mineral resource biomedical materials application.
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reticulum in the liver did not always increase with in creasing OOT. One reason may be cooking, which re
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There's oxone in Mars' atmosphere, say earth-bound
viability by live utility companies and Sfcne V'.
scientists who have been studying the pianet through
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telescopes. The group, which includes researchers
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from the National Oceanic 1 Atmospheric Adminis tration, the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, and
first phase ol NECUP is due lor cam.p'eiion by l ol the year. Use ol mixtures ol oil w.ihi finely :rou
France's National Center lor Scientific Research, used
and processes that edd hydrogen 53 ccal under -
powerful telescopes at Mt. Hopkins, Ari:., to detect the infrared radiance of excited oxygen molecules produced
. are among the operations to be reviewed. The ii\ companies are Sosfon Edison. Long island L
by1 the photochemical breakup ol triatcmic oxygen.. .
Mew England Power, New England Gas else: .
Peak oxone concentrations occur at about 30 km atti '
Northeast Utilities.
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tude on Mars, the group believes.
Common clays can help catalyze complex cf
Jupiter's hydrogen atmosphere may behave something like earth's atmosphere and something Kite the oceans. ^
reactions, say researchers at Michigan State Un By binding catalytic materials to clay particle 1
This is the conclusion of Or. Gareth P. Williams ol the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration, who applied a computer model of me earth's atmosphere to Jupiter. He lound that it not. only reproduced the patterns known to exist but provided new explanations
of such visible features as the great red spot (a soepinl type of large stationary eddy) and the hcricsnta.1 stripes (jet Streams traveling in opposite direction:,). It also revealed a loor>c,v cycle the transfer of heal
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