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3 unusual facts about volatile organic compound


Cloud condensation nuclei

The particles may be composed of dust or clay, soot or black carbon from grassland or forest fires, sea salt from ocean wave spray, soot from factory smokestacks or internal combustion engines, sulfate from volcanic activity, phytoplankton or the oxidation of sulfur dioxide and secondary organic matter formed by the oxidation of VOCs.

Michael Tsegaye

There, he received his diploma in painting in 2002, but soon gave up painting after he developed a severe allergy to oil paint.

Reproductive isolation

Evaporated molecules of volatile pheromones can serve as a wide-reaching chemical signal.


Hydraulic fracturing proppants

Except for diesel-based additive fracturing fluids, noted by the American Environmental Protection Agency to have a higher proportion of volatile organic compounds and carcinogenic BTEX, use of fracturing fluids in hydraulic fracturing operations was explicitly excluded from regulation under the American Clean Water Act in 2005, a legislative move that has since attracted controversy for being the product of special interests lobbying.


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ENVIRON

In the United States, the firm has worked with the Marathon Petroleum Company at its major gulf coast refinery in Garyville, Louisiana, to develop VOC BioTreatâ„¢, a patent-pending biotreatment solution to reduce volatile organic compound emissions at oil and chemical refineries.