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The biggest risks of VOCs in industrial projects

In hazard-prone industrial projects, some risks can be easier to overlook than others. That’s often the case with volatile organic compounds (VOCs), which are often not immediately noticeable but can be dangerous nonetheless. 




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Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in terrestrial extreme environments: implications for life detection beyond Earth

Nat. Prod. Rep., 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4NP00037D, Review Article
Open Access
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Claire A. Batty, Victoria K. Pearson, Karen Olsson-Francis, Geraint Morgan
This review highlights how discovering and analysing VOCs in extreme environments on Earth can help identify biosignatures and unravel complex patterns in metabolic data that could help identify life on other planetary bodies.
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Individual non-methane VOCs have large impacts on human health

Emissions of non-methane volatile organic compounds (NMVOCs) can have damaging effects on human health. New research has now revealed that only three substances out of a large number of NMVOCs are responsible for almost all damaging effects on human health. Air pollution policies should be designed to target these substances specifically, rather than overall NMVOC emissions, the researchers recommend.




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Add your voice to fighting toxic VOCs

Picked no-VOC paints for your health and home air quality? Then ask California to regulate VOCs in common products.



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Beat toxic VOCs with milk paint

Concern about the safety of many wall coverings has led to a revival in milk-based paints.



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VOCs: Volatile Organic Compounds, Indoor Air Quality and Respiratory Health

Getty Images Volatile organic compounds: something's in the air You can't see them, but they're all around us. They aren't listed as ingredients on the objects we bring in our home, but they're often there. They're volatile organic compounds, or VOCs, a




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Jargon Watch: SVOCs, "the next challenge in indoor air quality"

Semi-Volatile Organic Compounds are in everything from your dust bunnies to your dental floss.




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Integrated adsorption and photocatalytic degradation of VOCs using a TiO2/diatomite composite: effects of relative humidity and reaction atmosphere

Catal. Sci. Technol., 2020, 10,2378-2388
DOI: 10.1039/D0CY00168F, Paper
Guangxin Zhang, Arman Peyravi, Zaher Hashisho, Zhiming Sun, Yangyu Liu, Shuilin Zheng, Lexuan Zhong
The optimal relative humidity condition for VOC degradation is related to the length of the carbon chain of VOCs.
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