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hazardous waste
Title: hazardous waste
Category: Science & Technology
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hazardous waste
#1. Cadmium
#2. What is Cadmium?
-Cadmium is a naturally occurring element in the earth’s crust. Pure cadmium is a soft silver-white metal.
-Cadmium is most off encountered in combination with other elements such as oxygen, chlorine, and sulfur.
#3. How Does Cadmium affect us?
-Lung damage
-Kidney disease
-High blood pressure
-Lung cancer
-Lead to fragile bones
#4. Ways to be exposed to cadmium?
-Small amounts of cadmium occur naturally in air, water, soil, and food
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…showed last 75 words of 422 total…develop compounds that have low ozone depletion potential to replace CFC’s as refrigerants, aerosol propellants and solvents. Possible alternatives for CFCs include:
-Hydro chlorofluorocarbons (break down quick in atmosphere)
-Hydro fluorocarbons (have no chlorine, “ozone safe”)
-Hydrocarbons such as butane and propane (cheap, no chlorine, but flammable
And poisonous.)
-Montreal Protocol, 1987 (required ban of use of CFCs, by January 1, 1996)
Montreal Protocol enforced ban of CFCs by applying economic and trade penalties if disobeyed.
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