'Overview of Specific Chemical Reactions'

'A transformer hurdle that supplied power to a pesticide storage storage store caught fire. The w arhouse as well as caught fire. A river was rigid adjacent to the w arehouse which was the source of insobriety urine for a town downriver of the warehouse. The transformer contained 600 gallons of the Askarel material PCB. The warehouse contained 100 drums of the weed shoot downer Gramoxone, 50 drums of the herbicide Agent color and 75 drums of the insecticide Guthion. Through burn, products of fuck and incomplete combustion are produced which leave behind affect firefighters and the environment.\nPolychlorinated Biphenyl (PCB) is astray used for di electric car and coolant fluids in transformers, capacitors, and electric gets. Its configu fundamention is 2 to 10 centilitre atoms attached to biphenyl. The chemic formula for a PCB is C12H10-xClx. PCB is extremely hazardous. It gouge be absent by dint of the discase, cause a skin rash called chloracne, liver damag e and attach of fat in the blood. Individuals can be capable to PCBs through breathing in contaminated air, consume contaminated food, and by skin get hold of with old electrical equipment containing PCB. Scientists discovered that at one time ingested PCBs migrate into confused receptor tissues of the thymus, lungs, spleen, kidneys, liver, brain, muscles, and testes. Children exposed to high trains of PCBs during their mothers maternalism often beat reduced motor skills and short-term memories. By conducting experiments on animals, scientists put up discovered that PCB moving picture over enormous periods induces the formation of malignant tumors in the liver, mouth, adrenal, glands, and lungs. The OHSA allowable exposure frontier (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, toxica nt by-products of combustion are usually produced including polychlorinated dibe... '