| Journal: | Quimica nova |
| Database: | PERIÓDICA |
| System number: | 000196317 |
| ISSN: | 0100-4042 |
| Authors: | Penteado, Jose Carlos Pires1 Vaz, Jorge Moreira2 |
| Institutions: | 1Universidade de Sao Paulo, Instituto de Quimica, Sao Paulo. Brasil 2Comissao Nacional de Energia Nuclear, Instituto de Pesquisas Energeticas e Nucleares, Sao Paulo. Brasil |
| Year: | 2001 |
| Season: | May-Jun |
| Volumen: | 24 |
| Number: | 3 |
| Pages: | 390-398 |
| Country: | Brasil |
| Language: | Portugués |
| Document type: | Artículo |
| Approach: | Teórico |
| English abstract | Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) are a class of 209 chemical compounds with the molecular formula C12H10-nCln, where 1 £ n £ 10. They were commercially produced as complex mixtures for various uses, being employed principally as dielectric fluids in capacitors and transformers. They are not easily degraded due their chemical and physical stability and tend to bioaccumulate in the organisms. After the discovery of their xenobiotic activity, restrictions were imposed for their use, as well as for their discards. Nowadays the development of recovery processes for contaminated environment urges to be done due to the extension of reached areas |
| Disciplines: | Medicina, Ingeniería |
| Keyword: | Toxicología, Ingeniería ambiental, Contaminación, Remediación, Bifenilos, Bifenilos policlorados, Toxicidad, Actividad xenobiótica, Xenobióticos |
| Keyword: | Medicine, Engineering, Toxicology, Environmental engineering, Remediation, Biphenyls, Polychrolinated biphenyls, Toxicity, Xenobiotics |
| Full text: | Texto completo (Ver HTML) |
