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Dangerous properties of industrial and consumer chemicals
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New York : M Dekker, 1994
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9780824791834

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30000003755620 RA1215 D36 1994 Open Access Book Book
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"This valuable resource provides detailed health and safety information on the hazardous and toxic properties of over 1,000 heavily used industrial and consumer chemicals. Lists chemicals both alphabetically and numerically according to their Chemical Abstract Service number permitting rapid access to specific data!"


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Fingertip availability of information on hazardous properties and toxicity of chemicals continues to be important for emergency responders and others in the field of environmental management and toxicology. Several classical tomes have been published over the years, but the emphasis is rapidly shifting to computerized data bases. Thus, a new book in the "dangerous properties" genre merits careful scrutiny. This work lists about 1,350 chemicals alphabetically and summarizes information from reports by the International Agency for Research on Cancer, the Consumer Product Safety Commission, the National Toxicology Program, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, and other governmental agencies. Most of the reports are from the 1970s and early 1980s; only about 15 percent of the entries are from 1986 or later. The main results of each report are listed uncritically and often redundantly. The only other facts provided are the Chemical Abstracts Service Registry Number (CAS RN) and several reported uses. Coverage ranges from poor to fairly good; but, in general, this book offers less information than other compendia or databases in the field. For example, no information is provided on physical or hazardous properties such as explosivity, nor is there emergency clinical information (for that information the authors might have referred the reader to Richard J. Lewis's Sax's Dangerous Properties of Industrial Materials, CH, Jan'93). No references are given to alternative or more definitive sources. One index lists the entries by CAS RN; the other completely useless index lists the chemicals alphabetically (as they are listed in the text) without even giving page numbers. No attention has been given to common alternate names. Obviously, many chemicals are not included; while evaluating a list of 45 chemicals used in dye manufacture, this reviewer found only 19 listed here. This book was not carefully planned, and the authors did not think through how people would use it. Although the information included appears to be accurate, this volume will have a very limited audience, and persons who need information on hazards associated with chemicals will have to look elsewhere. M. Gochfeld; Robert Wood Johnson Medical School


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Sources of toxicity data
toxicological and hazardous properties data
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