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Toxic chlorinated and polyaromatic hydrocarbons in simulated house fires
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Toxic chlorinated and polyaromatic hydrocarbons in simulated house fires
Chemosphere.
2000 Sep.
Abstract
Toxic chlorinated hydrocarbons (polychlorinated biphenyls, benzenes and dioxins and furans) and polyaromatic hydrocarbons were examined in combustion gas and deposited soot wipe samples from simulated house fires. Concentrations of these substances were high during the fires, the amounts of polychlorinated dioxins and furans (PCDD/Fs) in the combustion gas varying from 1.0 to >7.2 ng/m3 (I-TEQ) and those of polyaromatic hydrocarbons from 6.4 to 470 mg/m3. Thus large amounts of organic compounds may be released in house fires. As a result, there is a need for careful personal protection of fire-fighters and remediation workers against combustion gases during a fire and on contaminated surfaces after it.
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