#1. Cadmium #2. What is Cadmium? -Cadmium is a naturally occurring element in the earth’s crust. Pure cadmium is a soft silver-white metal. -Cadmium is most off encountered in combination with other elements such as oxygen, chlorine, and sulfur. #3. How Does Cadmium affect us? -Lung damage -Kidney disease -High blood pressure -Lung cancer -Lead to fragile bones #4. Ways to be exposed to cadmium? -Small amounts of cadmium occur naturally in air, water, soil, and food -Cadmium …showed first 75 words of 398 total…

…showed last 75 words of 398 total…compounds that have low ozone depletion potential to replace CFC’s as refrigerants, aerosol propellants and solvents. Possible alternatives for CFCs include: -Hydro chlorofluorocarbons (break down quick in atmosphere) -Hydro fluorocarbons (have no chlorine, “ozone safe”) -Hydrocarbons such as butane and propane (cheap, no chlorine, but flammable And poisonous.) -Montreal Protocol, 1987 (required ban of use of CFCs, by January 1, 1996) Montreal Protocol enforced ban of CFCs by applying economic and trade penalties if disobeyed. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**