| Chemical |
Benzo(e)pyrene |
| CAS-number : |
192-97-2 |
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| Synonyms : |
| 1,2-benzopyrene |
| B(e)P |
| bentso(e)pyreeni |
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| Sumformula of the chemical : |
| C20H12 |
| EINECS-number : |
| 2058927 |
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| Molecular weight : |
252 |
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| Water solubility, mg/l : |
| 0.004 |
at 25 °C |
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| Carcinogenicity : |
Carcinogenicity: weakly carcinogenic (McCann et al. 1975).
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| Mutagenicity : |
Mutagenicity in the Salmonella test: positive;
> 60 revertant colonies/nmol
143 revertant colonies at 0.060 mg/plate
(McCann et al. 1975).
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| Other information of water organisms : |
Lethal threshold concentration (LT50):
Daphnia magna: 0.0007 mg/l, 0.64 days (Newsted & Giesy 1987).
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References |
| 912 | McCann, J. et al. 1975.
Detection of carcinogens as
mutagens in the Salmonella/microsome test: Assay of 300
chemicals, Proc.
Nat.
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Sciences, Dec. |
| 1889 | Newsted, J.L. & Giesy, J.P. 1987.
Predictive models for
photoinduced acute toxicity of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons to
Daphnia magna, Strauss (Cladocera,Crustacea).
Environ.
Toxicol.
Chem. 6: 445. |
| 1468 | Verschueren, K. 1983.
Handbook of environmental data of
organic chemicals.
Van Nostrand Reinhold Co.
Inc., New York.
1310 s. |
