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Environmental Health Perspectives

Index Environmental Health Perspectives

Environmental Health Perspectives (EHP) is a peer-reviewed journal published monthly with support from the U.S. National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS). [1]

95 relations: Aamjiwnaang First Nation, Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, Air pollution, Air pollution in British Columbia, Anogenital distance, Asian brown cloud, Atrazine, Autism, Bengal, Bernardino Ramazzini, BioRxiv, BPA controversy, Bromate, Brominated flame retardant, Catharanthus roseus, Chronic solvent-induced encephalopathy, Controversies related to chronic fatigue syndrome, Cryptorchidism, Cuniculture, Dam, David Johnston (builder), Deductive-nomological model, Deepwater Horizon oil spill, Denialism, Depleted uranium, Domestic rabbit, Dose–response relationship, Effects of global warming on human health, EHP, Endocrine disruptor, Energy accidents, Environmental health, Environmental impact of pig farming, Environmental impact of the oil shale industry, Environmental issues in Canada, Environmental racism, Environmental toxicology, Environmental vegetarianism, European Committee on Radiation Risk, Exposome, Furan fatty acids, Great Smog of London, Healthy Food Financing Initiative, Heat wave, Hydraulic fracturing, Indoor air quality, Ixodes ricinus, Joseph LaDou, Keith Baverstock, Kohl (cosmetics), ..., Lead, Lead contamination in Washington, D.C. drinking water, Learning space, Lipari Landfill, List of Duke University people, List of environmental journals, List of environmental social science journals, List of open-access journals, Louis J. Guillette Jr, Martin Rodbell, Median lethal dose, Mickey Slim, Nanoparticle, Oil shale in Estonia, Passive smoking, Paul Alan Cox, Pea soup fog, Perchlorate, Perfluorononanoic acid, Perfluorooctanesulfonic acid, Perfluorooctanoic acid, Philadelphia Water Department, Plastic, Polyethylene terephthalate, Pu'er tea, Public health journal, Racial segregation in the United States, Radon, Richard Doll, Risk factors for breast cancer, Robert K. Crane, Roxarsone, Science in Society Journalism Awards, Semen Gluzman, Sentinel species, Silent Spring Institute, Specific absorption rate, Styrene, Styrene oxide, Tattoo ink, Tattoo medical issues, Tetraethyllead, Ultrafine particle, 2,5-Dimethylfuran, 2018 in science. Expand index (45 more) »

Aamjiwnaang First Nation

The Aamjiwnaang First Nation (or also known as Chippewas of Sarnia First Nation) is an Ojibwe First Nation band government in southwestern Ontario, Canada.

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Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry

The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) is a federal public health agency within the United States Department of Health and Human Services.

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Air pollution

Air pollution occurs when harmful or excessive quantities of substances including gases, particulates, and biological molecules are introduced into Earth's atmosphere.

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Air pollution in British Columbia

Air pollution is a concern in British Columbia, Canada because of its effects on health and visibility.

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Anogenital distance

Anogenital distance (AGD) is the distance from the anus to the genitalia, the base of the penis or vagina.

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Asian brown cloud

The Indian Ocean brown cloud or Asian brown cloud is a layer of air pollution that recurrently covers parts of South Asia, namely the northern Indian Ocean, India, and Pakistan.

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Atrazine

Atrazine is a herbicide of the triazine class.

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Autism

Autism is a developmental disorder characterized by troubles with social interaction and communication and by restricted and repetitive behavior.

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Bengal

Bengal (Bānglā/Bôngô /) is a geopolitical, cultural and historical region in Asia, which is located in the eastern part of the Indian subcontinent at the apex of the Bay of Bengal.

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Bernardino Ramazzini

Bernardino Ramazzini (4 October 1633 – 5 November 1714) was an Italian physician.

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BioRxiv

bioRxiv (pronounced "bio-archive") is an open access preprint repository for the biological sciences co-founded by John Inglis and Richard Sever in November 2013.

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BPA controversy

Bisphenol A controversy centers on concerns and debates about the biomedical significance of bisphenol A (BPA), which is a precursor to polymers that are used in some consumer products, including some food containers.

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Bromate

The bromate anion, BrO, is a bromine-based oxoanion.

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Brominated flame retardant

Brominated flame retardants (BFRs) are organobromine compounds that have an inhibitory effect on combustion chemistry and tend to reduce the flammability of products containing them.

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Catharanthus roseus

Catharanthus roseus, commonly known as the Madagascar periwinkle, rose periwinkle, or rosy periwinkle, is a species of flowering plant in the dogbane family Apocynaceae.

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Chronic solvent-induced encephalopathy

Chronic solvent induced encephalopathy (CSE) is a condition induced by long-term exposure to organic solvents, often but not always in the workplace, that lead to a wide variety of persisting sensorimotor polyneuropathies and neurobehavioral deficits even after solvent exposure has been removed.

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Controversies related to chronic fatigue syndrome

Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) is an illness with a long history of controversy.

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Cryptorchidism

Cryptorchidism is the absence of one or both testes from the scrotum.

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Cuniculture

Cuniculture is the agricultural practice of breeding and raising domestic rabbits as livestock for their meat, fur, or wool.

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Dam

A dam is a barrier that stops or restricts the flow of water or underground streams.

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David Johnston (builder)

David Johnston is president of What's Working, a design and consulting firm in Boulder, Colorado that specializes in environmental construction technology.

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Deductive-nomological model

The deductive-nomological model (DN model), also known as Hempel's model, the Hempel–Oppenheim model, the Popper–Hempel model, or the covering law model, is a formal view of scientifically answering questions asking, "Why...?".

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Deepwater Horizon oil spill

The Deepwater Horizon oil spill (also referred to as the BP oil spill/leak, the BP oil disaster, the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, and the Macondo blowout) is an industrial disaster that began on 20 April 2010, in the Gulf of Mexico on the BP-operated Macondo Prospect, considered to be the largest marine oil spill in the history of the petroleum industry and estimated to be 8% to 31% larger in volume than the previous largest, the Ixtoc I oil spill.

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Denialism

In the psychology of human behavior, denialism is a person's choice to deny reality, as a way to avoid a psychologically uncomfortable truth.

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Depleted uranium

Depleted uranium (DU; also referred to in the past as Q-metal, depletalloy or D-38) is uranium with a lower content of the fissile isotope U-235 than natural uranium.

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Domestic rabbit

A domestic rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus forma domesticus), more commonly known as a pet rabbit, a bunny, or a bunny rabbit is any of the domesticated varieties of the European rabbit species.

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Dose–response relationship

The dose–response relationship, or exposure–response relationship, describes the change in effect on an organism caused by differing levels of exposure (or doses) to a stressor (usually a chemical) after a certain exposure time, or to a food.

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Effects of global warming on human health

The effects of global warming include its effects on human health.

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EHP

EHP may refer to.

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Endocrine disruptor

Endocrine disruptors are chemicals that can interfere with endocrine (or hormone) systems at certain doses.

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Energy accidents

Energy resources bring with them great social and economic promise, providing financial growth for communities and energy services for local economies.

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Environmental health

Environmental health is the branch of public health concerned with all aspects of the natural and built environment affecting human health.

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Environmental impact of pig farming

The environmental impact of pig farming refers to the threats posed to the natural environment by large-scale pig farming.

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Environmental impact of the oil shale industry

Environmental impact of the oil shale industry includes the consideration of issues such as land use, waste management, and water and air pollution caused by the extraction and processing of oil shale.

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Environmental issues in Canada

Environmental issues in Canada include air and water pollution, climate change, mining and logging.

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Environmental racism

Environmental racism is a term used to describe environmental injustice within a racialized context.

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Environmental toxicology

Environmental toxicology is a multidisciplinary field of science concerned with the study of the harmful effects of various chemical, biological and physical agents on living organisms.

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Environmental vegetarianism

Environmental vegetarianism is the practice of vegetarianism or eating a plant-based diet based on the indications that animal-based industries are environmentally destructive or unsustainable.

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European Committee on Radiation Risk

The European Committee on Radiation Risk (ECRR) is an informal committee formed in 1997 following a meeting by the European Green Party at the European Parliament to review the Council of Europe's directive 96/29Euratom, issued in May of the previous year.

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Exposome

The exposome encompasses the totality of human environmental (i.e. non-genetic) exposures from conception onwards, complementing the genome, first proposed in 2005 by a cancer epidemiologist.

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Furan fatty acids

Furan fatty acids are a group of fatty acids that contain a furan ring.

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Great Smog of London

The Great Smog of London, or Great Smog of 1952, was a severe air-pollution event that affected the British capital of London in early December 1952.

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Healthy Food Financing Initiative

The Healthy Food Financing Initiative (HFFI) is a program created in 2010 by the Obama Administration as part of the Let's Move! public health campaign.

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Heat wave

A heat wave is a period of excessively hot weather, which may be accompanied by high humidity, especially in oceanic climate countries.

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Hydraulic fracturing

Hydraulic fracturing (also fracking, fraccing, frac'ing, hydrofracturing or hydrofracking) is a well stimulation technique in which rock is fractured by a pressurized liquid.

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Indoor air quality

Indoor air quality (IAQ) is a term which refers to the air quality within and around buildings and structures, especially as it relates to the health and comfort of building occupants.

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Ixodes ricinus

Ixodes ricinus, the castor bean tick, is a chiefly European species of hard-bodied tick.

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Joseph LaDou

Joseph LaDou (born 1938) is an occupational and environmental medicine physician and founding editor of the International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health.

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Keith Baverstock

Dr Keith Baverstock is a former regional adviser for Radiation and Public Health, World Health Organization and current medical researcher and Docent in the Department of Environmental Science at the University of Eastern Finland.

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Kohl (cosmetics)

Kohl (كُحْل) is an ancient eye cosmetic, traditionally made by grinding stibnite (Sb2S3) for similar purposes to charcoal used in mascara.

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Lead

Lead is a chemical element with symbol Pb (from the Latin plumbum) and atomic number 82.

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Lead contamination in Washington, D.C. drinking water

Lead contamination in Washington, D.C. drinking water, first discovered in 2001, left thousands of children with lifelong health risks, and led to a re-evaluation of the use of chloramine in public drinking-water systems.

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Learning space

Learning space or learning setting refers to a physical setting for a learning environment, a place in which teaching and learning occur.

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Lipari Landfill

The Lipari Landill is an inactive landfill on a former gravel pit in Mantua Township, New Jersey, United States, that was used from 1958 to 1971 as a dump site for household and industrial wastes.

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List of Duke University people

This list of Duke University people includes alumni, faculty, presidents, and major philanthropists of Duke University, which includes three undergraduate and ten graduate schools.

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List of environmental journals

This is a list of scholarly, peer-reviewed academic journals focused on the biophysical environment and/or humans' relations with it.

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List of environmental social science journals

This is a list of articles about academic journals in environmental social science.

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List of open-access journals

This is a list of open-access journals by field.

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Louis J. Guillette Jr

Louis J. Guillette Jr. (died 2015) was an American professor of embryology.

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Martin Rodbell

Martin Rodbell (December 1, 1925 – December 7, 1998) was an American biochemist and molecular endocrinologist who is best known for his discovery of G-proteins.

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Median lethal dose

In toxicology, the median lethal dose, LD50 (abbreviation for "lethal dose, 50%"), LC50 (lethal concentration, 50%) or LCt50 is a measure of the lethal dose of a toxin, radiation, or pathogen.

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Mickey Slim

The Mickey Slim was a drink that had short-lived popularity in the United States in the 1940s and 1950s.

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Nanoparticle

Nanoparticles are particles between 1 and 100 nanometres (nm) in size with a surrounding interfacial layer.

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Oil shale in Estonia

Oil shale (põlevkivi) is a strategic energy resource that constitutes about 4% of Estonia's gross domestic product.

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Passive smoking

Passive smoking is the inhalation of smoke, called second-hand smoke (SHS), or environmental tobacco smoke (ETS), by persons other than the intended "active" smoker.

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Paul Alan Cox

Paul Alan Cox is an American ethnobotanist whose scientific research focuses on discovering new medicines by studying patterns of wellness and illness among indigenous peoples.

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Pea soup fog

Pea soup, or a pea souper, also known as a black fog, killer fog or smog is a very thick and often yellowish, greenish, or blackish fog caused by air pollution that contains soot particulates and the poisonous gas sulphur dioxide.

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Perchlorate

A perchlorate is the name for a chemical compound containing the perchlorate ion,.

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Perfluorononanoic acid

Perfluorononanoic acid, or PFNA, is a synthetic perfluorinated carboxylic acid and fluorosurfactant that is also an environmental contaminant found in people and wildlife along with PFOS and PFOA.

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Perfluorooctanesulfonic acid

Perfluorooctanesulfonic acid (conjugate base perfluorooctanesulfonate) (PFOS) is an anthropogenic fluorosurfactant and global pollutant.

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Perfluorooctanoic acid

Perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) (conjugate base perfluorooctanoate), also known as C8, is a synthetic perfluorinated carboxylic acid and fluorosurfactant.

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Philadelphia Water Department

The Philadelphia Water Department provides integrated potable water, wastewater, and stormwater services for Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, and some communities in Bucks, Delaware and Montgomery counties.

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Plastic

Plastic is material consisting of any of a wide range of synthetic or semi-synthetic organic compounds that are malleable and so can be molded into solid objects.

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Polyethylene terephthalate

Polyethylene terephthalate (sometimes written poly(ethylene terephthalate)), commonly abbreviated PET, PETE, or the obsolete PETP or PET-P, is the most common thermoplastic polymer resin of the polyester family and is used in fibres for clothing, containers for liquids and foods, thermoforming for manufacturing, and in combination with glass fibre for engineering resins.

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Pu'er tea

Pu'er or pu-erh is a variety of fermented tea produced in Yunnan province, China.

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Public health journal

A public health journal is a scientific journal devoted to the field of public health, including epidemiology, biostatistics, and health care (including medicine, nursing and related fields).

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Racial segregation in the United States

Racial segregation in the United States, as a general term, includes the segregation or separation of access to facilities, services, and opportunities such as housing, medical care, education, employment, and transportation along racial lines.

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Radon

Radon is a chemical element with symbol Rn and atomic number 86.

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Richard Doll

Sir William Richard Shaboe Doll (28 October 1912 – 24 July 2005) was a British physiologist who became an epidemiologist in the 20th century, turning the subject into a rigorous science.

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Risk factors for breast cancer

Risk factors for breast cancer may be divided into preventable and non-preventable.

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Robert K. Crane

Robert Kellogg Crane (December 20, 1919 – October 31, 2010) was an American biochemist best known for his discovery of sodium-glucose cotransport.

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Roxarsone

Roxarsone is an organoarsenic compound that was widely used in poultry production prior to June of 2011 as a feed additive to increase weight gain and improve feed efficiency, and as a coccidiostat.

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Science in Society Journalism Awards

The Science in Society Journalism Awards are awards created by the American National Association of Science Writers (NASW) to honor and encourage "outstanding investigative and interpretive reporting about the sciences and their impact for good and ill." Each year the NASW recognizes work in these categories: books, periodicals (newspaper and magazine), and electronic media (radio, television, and the Internet).

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Semen Gluzman

Semen Fishelevich Gluzman (Семе́н Фі́шельович Глу́зман, Семён Фи́шелевич Глу́зман; born 10 September 1946, Kiev) is a Ukrainian psychiatrist and human rights activist.

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Sentinel species

Sentinel species are organisms, often animals, used to detect risks to humans by providing advance warning of a danger.

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Silent Spring Institute

Silent Spring Institute is a nonprofit organization dedicated to studying and reporting primarily on breast cancer prevention, although its research covers other health-related topics as well.

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Specific absorption rate

Specific absorption rate (SAR) is a measure of the rate at which energy is absorbed by the human body when exposed to a radio frequency (RF) electromagnetic field.

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Styrene

Styrene, also known as ethenylbenzene, vinylbenzene, and phenylethene, is an organic compound with the chemical formula C6H5CH.

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Styrene oxide

Styrene oxide is an epoxide derived from styrene.

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Tattoo ink

Tattoo inks consist of pigments combined with a carrier, and are used in tattooing.

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Tattoo medical issues

A variety of medical issues can result from tattooing.

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Tetraethyllead

Tetraethyllead (commonly styled tetraethyl lead), abbreviated TEL, is an organolead compound with the formula (CH3CH2)4Pb.

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Ultrafine particle

Ultrafine particles (UFPs) are particulate matter of nanoscale size (less than 0.1 μm or 100 nm in diameter).

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2,5-Dimethylfuran

2,5-Dimethylfuran is a heterocyclic compound with the formula (CH3)2C4H2O.

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2018 in science

A number of significant scientific events have occurred or are scheduled to occur in 2018.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_Health_Perspectives

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