Hazardous Substances A Reference Author:Melvin Berger This is a dictionary-like guide to more than 230 dangerous materials in the environmental, such as dioxin, PCBs, and tobacco smoke. It also includes other dangers to the environment--acid rain, bacterial and noise pollution, and radiation, for example. The disasters at Bhopal, India; Chernobyl, Russia; and Times Beach, Missouri are discussed, am... more »ong others.
Each entry includes the common name for the substance, acronyms, chemical formula, description, safety standard, and other names. Numbers following the entry are keyed to references at the back of the book for additional information.
The book covers much more than just hazardous substances. There is a section explaining seventy terms used in the field, such as carcinogen, teratogen, and pollution standard index. Another section lists seventeen federal laws and agencies that control hazardous substances. A final section gives government agencies and public interest organizations that can furnish more information on hazardous substances.
Hazard Substances: A Reference is valuable as a quick reference guide to environmental problems. It is ideal for anyone who wants to learn more about matters discussed in social science and science classes or as a source of information for reports on important current issues involving dangers to the environment.« less