This new volume provides a timely study on the environmental challenges from a specific class of perfluorinated chemical compounds (PFCs) that are now being recognized as a worldwide health threat. Recent studies report that levels of classes of PFCs known as polyfluoroalkyl and perfluoroalkyl (PFASs) exceed federally recommended safety levels in public drinking-water supplies for 6 million people in the United States and that as many as 100 million people could be at risk from ex...
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Preface ix
About the Author xv
Abbreviations and Acronyms xvii
Useful Conversion Factors xxi
1 What Fluoropolymers Are 1
1.1 Introduction 1
1.2 Evolution of Fluorop...
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Nicholas P. Cheremisinoff is the Principal of No Pollution Enterprises. He is a chemical engineer specializing in the safe handling and management of industrial chemicals ...