9780756714680

Rocket Science

Format: Paperback

ISBN13: 9780756714680

Paperback|9780756714680


Overview

The EPA has found perchlorate-tainted water in 18 states, including sources of drinking water for almost 7 million Californians, & believes that contamination exists wherever rockets were made or tested. Perchlorate, the main ingredient of missile & rocket fuel, is a chemical that interferes with normal thyroid function, may cause thyroid cancer & persists indefinitely in the environment, but is unregulated by the state or Fed. gov't. Chapters: a toxic legacy: known or suspected perchlorate contamination in CA & in the U.S., & sites of perchlorate detection in CA waters systems & in the U.S.; a perchlorate primer; rocket science; & polluting the regulatory process.

ISBN-13

9780756714680

ISBN-10

0756714680

List Price

$20.00

Format

Paperback

Pages

51 pages

Publisher

Diane Pub Co

Published On

2001-10-01



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