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Definitions for volatile organic compounds
volatile or·ganic com·pounds
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U.S. National Library of Medicine
Volatile Organic Compounds
Organic compounds that have a relatively high VAPOR PRESSURE at room temperature.
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of volatile organic compounds in Chaldean Numerology is: 9
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of volatile organic compounds in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4
Examples of volatile organic compounds in a Sentence
In terms of some of the symptoms of headache, et cetera, unfortunately volatile organic compounds share, with a host of other things, the ability to cause very common symptoms at the lower levels – so headache, eye irritation, nose irritation, et cetera, i think that we have to look at the measured facts – and the measured facts include the fact that the air sampling in that area really is not pointing toward an air source for this.
If you have a lung cancer inside your lung, that cancer is producing a range of chemicals in very, very minute amounts. And this device can collect those samples, those tiny amounts of volatile organic compounds, which we can then analyze in the laboratory. And in effect, it's a bit like a fingerprint. If you have a lung cancer we believe that we can detect these samples and that fingerprint will tell us whether the person has lung cancer or not.
PVC also releases gases known as volatile organic compounds, which are gases that can irritate the eyes, nose, and lungs.
There’s also some other ingredients that have been identified — things like volatile organic compounds as well as ultrafine particulates, including heavy metals, and so the contention that these products emit a harmless water vapor is simply not true.
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- les composés organiques volatilsFrench
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