Dichlorophenol+(Silver+Class)

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Dichlorophenol is a chemical that is used in mothballs and it can be found in some dyes and herbicides/pesticides, mainly the pesticides. It is manly used on cereal grains like barley rye and wheat, it is also used on citrus fruits. It is mostly used on produce to reduce fungus and regulate size.

One of the positive things that it does when used as a pesticide is it promotes development making the fruits larger, also when it is sprayed on the lemons after they have been picked then it can decrease the chances of it developing Alternaria rot, which is a fungus that commonly grows on fruits while in storage. It is also used on potatoes to produce medium sized and more desirable potatoes.

=Human Health Implications=

There have been tests done on chlorophenols involving lab animals, and in these tests it has been found that if there is contact with the skin involving any type of chloropehnol than the animals can die or develop cancer. In one test that involved putting solid dichloropehnol on rabbits eyes resulted in blindness. In some cases where workers have had any type of dichloropehnol on large parts of their skin, have developed skin problems, and in a few cases they have died. Dichloropehnol is thought to be a possible carcinogen and if ingested through inhalation or consumption through water liver problems can develop along with acne.

Through testing of people who have worked around chlorophenols they have found that they have weakened immune systems and livers. It is thought that chloropehnols can also affect the reproductive system. When dichloropehnols enters the body they are usually broken down by the body and leave the body through urine. Some chlorophenols can leave in two days but dichloropehnol can take up to a week to leave the body.

=Environmental Effect=

The environmental aspect of this chemical is a bit more obvious than the health effects, due to the fact that this chemical is used mostly outdoors as a pesticide and herbicide it comes in contact with the foods we eat before it comes in contact with us. Dichloropehnol has the same effects of any pesticide on the earth.

Dichloropehnol is almost impossible to remove from contaminated soils, recently there have been many tests done to see if there was a possible way to safely remove it from the soil. One test that has proven to be hEconomic Politicalelpful is a device that is called rotating perforated tubes biofilm reactor (RTBR), this removed the dichloropehnol from water but was not used on soil.

=Synthesis Production Economical Political=

Some common products that have dichlorophenol in them are pesticides, and mothballs. It is also sometimes found in dyes. Some of the foods that dichlorophenol is used on are mainly grains, it also helps make the shelf life of citrus fruits longer. So it can be founding both, and that is one of the ways that it makes it into peoples body. Dichloropehnol is made by combining two chlorophenols with oxygen and hydrogen.

There would be no problem if this chemical were banned because there are many other pesticides that do the same thing. But the main problem is not that chemical it is just pesticides. Just eliminating one type of pesticide would be useless because there are still a lot of other pesticides that do the same thing. This banning would not affect anyone, ever, at all. No one would notice because there are still a lot of pesticides this one is not any different from anything else.

=Summary=

There is no real reason why you shouldn’t ban this chemical, the only real reason that it shouldn’t be is that there are so many other chemicals that do the same thing so if you’re not going to ban them all than you might as well not ban this one. But if this one was to be banned than all the companies that use dichlorophenol pesticides would have to stop using them, and instead just use another type of pesticide. This would really make no different seeing as though you’d probably have all of the same troubles that you got from dichlorophenols in this new pesticide, maybe even more.

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