Results of Interactions with:
Possible Sources
Oxygen
Other Chemicals
of Pollufanf
Tanning; beat-sugar processing.
_———————___—_____—__
Production of tertilizers, acids,
dyes, explosives.
A solvent and cleaning agent;
used in the manufacture of
dyes and organics.
___—_——________
Toxicity
increases
Synergistic with nickel, cyanide, and copper.
Galvanizing; in alloys; printing
as
dissolved oxyThe toxicîty of zinc and cadmium is additive.
plates; dye-manufacture; paint
"“"“
gen is lowered.
pigmentation; cosmetics; pharmaceuticals; insecticides.
Source: Most information in this table is from jack E. McKee and Harold W. Wolf, Water Quality Criteria,
State Water Quality Control Board, Sacramento, California, 1963. Other reference sources are noted.
[8]
Barry Commoner, The Closing Circle (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1971), p.
224.
[9]
]oseph Street, “Organochlorine Insecticides and the Stimulation of Liver Mi—
crosome Enzymes,” in Biological Eects of Pesticides in Mammalian Systems,
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, ]une 23, 1969, Vol. 160, Art. 1,
274—90.
[10]
David Pramer, “The Soil Transforms,” Environment, May 1971, Vol. 13, No. 4,
42—46.
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