'Overview of Specific Chemical Reactions'

'A transformer burial vault that supplied power to a pesticide storage storage w arhouse caught fire. The w arhouse likewise caught fire. A river was situated adjacent to the warehouse which was the source of boozing water system for a town downstream of the warehouse. The transformer contained 600 gallons of the Askarel material PCB. The warehouse contained 100 drums of the weed shooter Gramoxone, 50 drums of the herbicide Agent olympian and 75 drums of the insect powder Guthion. Through combustion, products of know and incomplete combustion are produced which go away affect firefighters and the environment.\nPolychlorinated Biphenyl (PCB) is widely used for insulator and coolant fluids in transformers, capacitors, and voltaic pushs. Its configu pration is 2 to 10 atomic number 17 atoms attached to biphenyl. The chemic formula for a PCB is C12H10-xClx. PCB is extremely hazardous. It earth-closet be wrapped through the skin, causing a skin rash called chloracne, co loured damage and enlarge of fat in the blood. Individuals can be unresolved to PCBs through breathing in contaminated air, consume contaminated food, and by skin fit with old galvanic equipment containing PCB. Scientists discovered that formerly ingested PCBs migrate into dissimilar receptor tissues of the thymus, lungs, spleen, kidneys, liver, brain, muscles, and testes. Children exposed to high takes of PCBs during their mothers motherhood often obligate reduced motor skills and short-term memories. By conducting experiments on animals, scientists assimilate discovered that PCB icon over abundant periods induces the formation of cancerous tumors in the liver, mouth, adrenal, glands, and lungs. The OHSA tolerable exposure plant (PEL) is 1mg/m ³. The LD50 to kill a rat is 8.65g/kg. For drinking water the maximum level contamination of PCBs is .0005 ppm. And for food, the gross profit margin levels of PCBs is 0.2 and 3 ppm. When PCBs are involved in a fire, poison ous by-products of combustion are usually produced including polychlorinated dibe... '