Long-term problems of land contaminated by nonradioactive hazardous chemicals : sources, impacts and countermeasures.

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TextPublication details: Oak Ridge, Tenn. : Oak Ridge National Laboratory, 1988Description: xxiii, 177 pSubject: The annual production of nonradioactive hazardous wastes in the United States exceeds 67 million metric tons. Hazardous chemicals are toxic, reactive, or corrosive. Toxic means carcinogenic, mutagenic, teratogenic, or lethal. Reactive means explosive, flammable, or capable of spontaneous reaction. Corrosive means strongly acidic or basic. Sources of contamination include transportation accidents or spills, waste treatment and industrial discharges, industrial accidents, runoff from agricultural lands, leaking dump sites, and illegal dumping. This report reviews sources, impacts, and countermeasures for hazardous chemical contamination of land and water, with particular attention to pesticides, polynuclear aromatics, halogenated hydrocarbons, acid esters, and toxic metals

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RR-11 / August 1988

The annual production of nonradioactive hazardous wastes in the United States exceeds 67 million metric tons. Hazardous chemicals are toxic, reactive, or corrosive. Toxic means carcinogenic, mutagenic, teratogenic, or lethal. Reactive means explosive, flammable, or capable of spontaneous reaction. Corrosive means strongly acidic or basic. Sources of contamination include transportation accidents or spills, waste treatment and industrial discharges, industrial accidents, runoff from agricultural lands, leaking dump sites, and illegal dumping. This report reviews sources, impacts, and countermeasures for hazardous chemical contamination of land and water, with particular attention to pesticides, polynuclear aromatics, halogenated hydrocarbons, acid esters, and toxic metals

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