Cadmium

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• Troubling levels of toxic metals found in lipstick

  A new analysis of the contents of lipstick and lip gloss may cause you to pause before puckering. Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley's School of Public Health tested 32 different lipsticks and lip glosses commonly found in drugstores and department stores. They detected lead, cadm more

• Call for evidence on the use of cadmium in plastics

  Following a request from the European Commission, the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) is examining the case for expanding the restriction on cadmium in plastics from the current 16 specific plastic materials listed in Annex XVII of REACH to all plastic materials. ECHA is asking for evidence to help more

• Plastics in electrical waste: Disposal or recycling?
  

  Electrical and electronic appliances are not only made from metallic materials, but also consist of up to more than 20% of plastics in average. These are found, for example, in casings or in base materials for circuit boards. No simple task for recycling companies, which find themselves confronted w more

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• The Determination of Hazardous Substances According to RoHS and WEEE Directives
  

  1st July 2006 is an important deadline for the electro- and electronics industries. This date bans hazardous substances like lead, cadmium, mercury, hexavalent chromium and polybrominated biphenyls and diphenyl ethers from electro- and electronic equipment. This restriction, even though in discussion since 1991, has become more and more important from year to year because of tons of electronic waste releasing toxic substances which are accumulated in the environment, the food chain and all human beings. In order to enforce the substances ban and the limitation or substitution of hazardous components, elemental analysis is obviously the most important control measure for monitoring limiting values. This requires precise analytical systems such as X-ray fluorescence, ICP- and atomic absorption spectrometers. These instruments are able to detect trace concentrations of hazardous compounds - for example cadmium, using an atomic absorption spectrometer in the flame atomization mode up to 0.1 mg/L, or using the di more

Publications Cadmium

• Zinc, cadmium and mercury

  This chapter reviews the literature reported during 2012 on the group 12 elements Zn, Cd and Hg, focusing on the synthesis and reactivity of molecular species. more

• Cadmium uptake, chemical forms, subcellular distribution, and accumulation in Echinodorus osiris Rataj

  Phytoremediation is a technology for extracting or inactivating pollutants in soil. Echinodorus osiris（E.osiris） is a fast growing perennial wetland plant that is common in tropical and subtropical areas and has a high tolerance to cadmium (Cd). However, the absorption dynamic, subcellular distribut more

• Cadmium(II) and zinc(II) complexes with rigid 1-(1H-imidazol-4-yl)-3-(4H-tetrazol-5-yl)benzene and varied carboxylate ligands

  Six new metal-organic coordination polymers [Cd2(HL)2(pbda)(H2O)2]•4H2O (1), [Cd2(HL)2(mbda)(H2O)2]•6H2O (2), [Cd(H2L)(mmbda)(H2O)] (3), [Cd2(H2L)2(btca) (H2O)2]•4H2O (4), [Zn2(H2L)2(btca)] (5) and [Zn6(H2L)6(btca)3] (6) were synthesized by reactions of cadmium(II)/zinc(II) salts with rigid ligand 1 more

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