toxaphene
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Toxaphene was an insecticide used primarily for cotton in the southern United States during the late 1960s and the 1970s. Toxaphene is a mixture of over 670 different chemicals and is produced by reacting chlorine gas with camphene. It can be most commonly found as a yellow to amber waxy solid.
Research
744 papers- Toxaphene.Residue reviews · 1978
- Toxaphene.Reviews of environmental contamination and toxicology · 1988
- Toxaphene: chemistry, biochemistry, toxicity and environmental fate.Reviews of environmental contamination and toxicology · 1991
- Toxaphene: a challenging analytical problem.Journal of environmental monitoring : JEM · 2000
- Toxaphene (polychlorinated camphenes).IARC monographs on the evaluation of the carcinogenic risk of chemicals to humans · 1979
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Wikidata facts
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- NIOSH Pocket Guide ID
- 0113
- density
- 1.65
- immediately dangerous to life or health
- 200
- melting point
- 149
- vapor pressure
- 0.4
- solubility
- 0.0003
- time-weighted average exposure limit
- 0.5
- ceiling exposure limit
- 0
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- Composition
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- Production
- Environmental effects
- Exposure
- Health effects
- In humans
- In animals
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Toxaphene was an insecticide used primarily for cotton in the southern United States during the late 1960s and the 1970s. Toxaphene is a mixture of over 670 different chemicals and is produced by reacting chlorine gas with camphene. It can be most commonly found as a yellow to amber waxy solid.
Toxaphene was banned in the United States in 1990 and was banned globally by the 2001 Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants. It is a very persistent chemical that can remain in the environment for 1–14 years without degrading, particularly in the soil.