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Avaliação de contaminação ambiental causada por poluentes orgânicos persistentes utilizando simulação computacional
Evaluation of environmental contamination by persistent organic pollutants utilizing simulation of leach processes
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Química Nova. Sociedade Brasileira de Química, v. 30, n. 3, p. 565-568, 2007.
0100-4042
S0100-40422007000300011
10.1590/S0100-40422007000300011
Autor
Pinto, Glaucia Maria F.
Pinto, Jefferson Ferreira
Maciel Filho, Rubens
Institución
Resumen
Environmental concern is growing in the current days and there is global agreement to banish production and use of persistent organic pollutants (POP). The synthetic insecticides chlordecone and mirex, classified as POPs, have similar structures and they are potentially toxic. This work uses properties and physicochemical constants related to the pesticides and computational simulation to evaluate the leach phenomenon and persistency in soil. The largest tendency of persistence of the compound is found to be in the surface of soil, but even low concentration in water represents a high risk due to bioaccumulation in adipose tissue. 565 568