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Environmental Engineering Research: Environmental & Toxicological Properties

Last Updated: Oct 17, 2024 11:33 AM

Environmental and toxicological properties can be found using the specialized sources below.

Environmental and toxicological properties can be found using the following specialized sources:

  • Patty's Toxicology
    Premier reference for toxicological information on a large number of industrial chemicals that pose potential health hazards. Patty's covers metal compounds; organic halogenated hydrocarbons and organic nitrogen compounds; organic halogenated hydrocarbons and aliphatic carboxylic acid compounds; ketones, alcohols, and ester compounds; and epoxy, glycol ethers, and synthetic polymer compounds.
  • Dictionary of Substances and Their Effects
    This 2005 electronic version of the original seven-volume reference work published by the Royal Society of Chemistry is available to the UB community via Knovel. It contains information on approximately 5,300 chemicals and their impact on the environment. Includes detailed information about the toxicity of the chemicals, physical properties and regulatory requirements. The information can be accessed through a live summary table that links to the detailed summaries or by browsing the table of contents for a specific chemical.
  • Handbook of Hazardous Chemical Properties
    This book provides extensive information on nearly 700 chemicals of commercial and industrial importance, as well as extensive health (toxicological) and safety handling information. It provides chemical specific information pertinent to safe handling and transportation of chemicals, worker protection, emergency response information to address spills, explosions on fire situations, and chemical stability/reactivity data.
  • Eisler's Encyclopedia of Environmentally Hazardous Priority Chemicals
    For chemicals identified by a panel of environmental specialists from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, information is presented on sources, uses, physical and chemical properties, tissue concentrations in field collections and their significance, and lethal and sublethal effects under controlled conditions. This includes effects on survival, growth, reproduction, metabolism, carcinogenicity, teratogenicity, and mutagenicity, as well as proposed regulatory criteria for the protection of sensitive natural resources, crops, livestock, and human health.
  • Handbook of Ecotoxicology
    Collection of information on ecotoxicological testing. Part A concentrates on techniques, especially tests used for prediction. Thorough descriptions of the main tests are provided, followed by critical analyses in terms of ease of handling, repeatability and ecological relevance. Part B focuses on the toxicants themselves: summarizing their ecological effects, describing ways of predicting effects from physico-chemical properties alone, and describing and discussing fate models.
  • Sittig's Handbook of Toxic and Hazardous Chemicals and Carcinogens (7th edition)
    The electronic 3 volume set is the most complete reference available providing information for over 2,200 of the most heavily used, transported, and regulated chemical substances of occupational and environmental concern.
  • Illustrated Handbook of Physical-Chemical Properties and Environmental Fate for Organic Chemicals
    This is an extensive collection of data contained in a multi-volume set. The volumes are shelved in Lockwood Library, 3rd floor, call number TD196.O73 M32
  • Handbook of Environmental Fate and Exposure Data for Organic Chemicals
    This five-volume set is shelved in the Lockwood Library Science & Engineering Reference Collection, call number REF D176.4 .H69

TOXNET & TOXMAP Information

Please note, TOXMAP and TOXNET have been retired. Per the U.S. National Library of Medicine, most of NLM's toxicology information services have been integrated into other NLM products and services. You can see how to access TOXNET/TOXMAP information at the below web link:
https://www.nlm.nih.gov/toxnet/index.html

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