Search results for flame retardants
Flame retardants prove ineffective on fresh-cut Christmas trees
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Dec 12, 2008 |
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This Christmas season, think twice about spending money on a commercial flame retardant for your Christmas tree. The good, old-fashioned method—keeping your tree in a container of fresh water—is probably all you need to keep ...
Potentially toxic flame retardants highest in California households
Oct 06, 2008 |
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In what may be an unintended consequence of efforts to make furniture safer and less flammable, residents of California have blood levels of potentially toxic flame retardants called PBDEs at levels nearly ...
Carbon Nanofibers Cut Flammability of Upholstered Furniture
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Dec 10, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Carbon, the active ingredient in charcoal, is normally not considered a fire retardant, but researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have determined that adding a ...
The proof is in the tree bark
Nov 26, 2007 |
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A study by Indiana University researchers found the chlorinated flame retardant Dechlorane Plus in the bark of trees across the northeastern US, with by far the highest concentrations measured near the Niagara Falls, N.Y., ...
Researchers: Polar bears ingesting toxins
Jan 10, 2006 |
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Researchers say that toxic chemicals from flame retardants are building up in the tissues of polar bears.
DEET found in drinking water
Apr 22, 2008 |
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Tests of Chicago's drinking water turned up low levels of the bug repellent DEET, the Chicago Sun-Times said.
Lightweight composites to get trimmer and smarter
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Dec 10, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- CSIRO researchers have set themselves the goal of producing a new generation of super-strong, lightweight polymer composite materials for use in aircraft, road vehicles, trains and ferries.
New process may convert toxic computer waste into safe products
May 12, 2008 |
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Discarded computer parts could one day wind up fueling your car. That’s because researchers in Romania and Turkey have developed a simple, efficient method for recycling printed circuit boards into environmentally-friendly ...
6 environmental research studies reveal critical health risks from plastic
Oct 02, 2008 |
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Exposure to Bisphenol A (BPA), phthalates and flame retardants (PBDEs) are strongly associated with adverse health effects on humans and laboratory animals. A special section in the October 2008 issue of Environmental Re ...
Baby fish in polluted San Francisco estuary waters are stunted and deformed
Dec 09, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Striped bass in the San Francisco Estuary are contaminated before birth with a toxic mix of pesticides, industrial chemicals and flame retardants that their mothers acquire from estuary waters ...
UN: Treaty expanded by 9 more dangerous chemicals
May 09, 2009 |
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(AP) -- A U.N.-sponsored treaty to combat highly dangerous chemicals has been expanded beyond the original "dirty dozen" to include nine more substances that are used in pesticides, flame retardants and other products, U.N. ...
Dutch robot Flame walks like a human
May 22, 2008 |
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Researcher Daan Hobbelen of TU Delft has developed a new, highly-advanced walking robot: Flame. This type of research, for which Hobbelen will receive his PhD on Friday 30 May, is important as it provides ...
UMass Amherst Scientists Create Fire-Safe Plastic
May 30, 2007 |
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Scientists from the University of Massachusetts Amherst have created a synthetic polymer—a building block of plastics—that doesn’t burn, making it an attractive alternative to traditional plastics, many of which are so flammable ...
Skip this cocktail party: Contaminants in marine mammals' brains
May 20, 2009 |
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The most extensive study of pollutants in marine mammals' brains reveals that these animals are exposed to a hazardous cocktail of pesticides such as DDTs and PCBs, as well as emerging contaminants such as brominated flame ...
Orcas most polluted Arctic mammal
Dec 12, 2005 |
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Orcas, or killer whales, reportedly have passed the polar bear to become the most contaminated mammal in the Arctic.
