- Look up
dioxin in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Dioxin may
refer to a
number of
different substances. Most notably: 1,2-
Dioxin or 1,4-
Dioxin, two unsaturated...
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Dioxins and
dioxin-like
compounds (DLCs) are a
group of
chemical compounds that are
persistent organic pollutants (POPs) in the environment. They are mostly...
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referred to as
dioxins for simplicity,
because every PCDD
molecule contains a dibenzo-1,4-
dioxin skeletal structure, with 1,4-
dioxin as the
central ring...
- 8-Tetrachlorodibenzo-p-
dioxin (TCDD) is a
polychlorinated dibenzo-p-
dioxin (sometimes shortened,
though inaccurately, to
simply '
dioxin') with the chemical...
- 000 L; 17,000,000 imp gal),
consisting of a fifty-fifty
mixture of 2,4-D and
dioxin-contaminated 2,4,5-T. Nine
chemical companies produced it: Dow Chemical...
- the town was
completely evacuated in
early 1983 due to TCDD (a type of
dioxin) contamination,
formerly the
largest civilian exposure to the
compound in...
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isomeric form of 1,4-
dioxin, 1,2-
dioxin (or o-
dioxin). 1,2-
Dioxin is very
unstable due to its peroxide-like characteristics. The term "
dioxin" is most commonly...
- Dibenzo-1,4-
dioxin, also
dibenzodioxin or dibenzo-p-
dioxin (dibenzo-para-
dioxin), is a
polycyclic heterocyclic organic compound in
which two
benzene rings...
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hydrocarbon receptor (also
known as AhR, AHR, ahr, ahR, AH receptor, or as the
dioxin receptor) is a
protein that in
humans is
encoded by the AHR gene. The aryl...
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equivalency factor (TEF)
expresses the
toxicity of
dioxins,
furans and PCBs in
terms of the most
toxic form of
dioxin, 2,3,7,8-TCDD. The
toxicity of the individual...
