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A chemical reactor, being started, was filled with the reaction mixture from another reactor which was alic.uly on line. The panel operator increased the flow of fresh feed while watching an eye level temperature recorder He intended to start cooling water flow to the reactor when the temperature began to rise, but did not because the tempe.r.j, ure recorder was faulty, thus a runaway reaction. 

Table 5 shows the HMBC of 7 MSW landfill leachates for copper, zinc and mercury. These data indicate that the MSW landfill leachate metal binding capacity was relatively high and was site-specific. HMBCs for the MSW leachate samples ranged from of 2.9 to 114.9, 4.9 to 45.2, and 3.6 to 100.8 for HMBC-Cu+2, HMBC-Zn+2, and HMBC-Hg+2, respectively. Comparatively, much lower HMBC values were obtained for other environmental samples, such as lake water (Lake Alice and Lake Beverly) and a wastewater treatment plant effluent (data not shown). 

Li, Z., S. Wang, N. Alice Lee, et al. 2004. Development of a solid-phase extraction-enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay method for the determination of estrone in water. Anal. Chim. Acta 503 171-177. 

Humans have been aware of and have used potentially poisonous chemical substances for thousands of years. Most of them were derived from plants or occurred naturally in rocks. Only relatively recently have new substances been synthesized most of which are unknown in nature. In recent years we have become accustomed to headlines in our newspapers such as Chemical company poisons our water , The poisons in our food , Poison oil scandal , and so on. In the popular mind the words poison and chemical have become synonymous, which has led to what Alice Ottoboni calls poison-paronoia or news media toxicology . According to Edith Efron in her book The Apocalyptics, this unreasonable fear of chemicals probably started in 1976 when the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency in the United States told newsmen that Most Americans had no idea, until relatively recently,. . . they were often engaging in a grim game of chemical roulette whose result they would not know until many years later . ... 

Alice Hontela, Department of Biological Sciences, Water Institute for Semi-arid Ecosystems (WISE), University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, AB, Canada T1K 3M4 (Chapter 12), alice.hontela uleth.ca... 

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