Word: aerosols
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...easy to fix because CFCs are ubiquitous in almost every society. They are used in refrigeration and air conditioning, as cleaning solvents in factories and as blowing agents to create certain kinds of plastic foam. In many countries CFCs are still spewed into the air as part of aerosol sprays...
Think for a moment about the world's 1 billion refrigerators and its hundreds of millions of air conditioners. Picture mountains of foam insulation, seat cushions, furniture stuffing and carpet padding. Imagine streams of cleaning fluids, rivers of industrial solvents, wafting clouds of aerosol spray...
...spurring them on may be the likelihood that exports not meeting strict ozone-friendly standards could soon face international sanctions. But there is also grass-roots pressure in some developing countries. In Mexico, for example, consumer complaints persuaded local manufacturers that it was time to begin removing CFCs from aerosol products. The changeover happened so quickly that when one company ran out of labels saying THIS IS A CFC-FREE PRODUCT, store managers rejected the shipment, knowing that many of their customers would leave unlabeled spray cans on the shelf...
...course, are even higher. Adolpho, 17, carries for a dealer in a section of north Camden known as the Danger Zone. Scissor-like scars cut edgewise across his knuckles, and the skin around his throat is mottled with burn marks from the time he put a match to an aerosol can in a street fight. Adolpho has seen five friends die in drug wars. Each time a child is killed, his epitaph is added to the graffiti murals adorning the walls of north Camden's vacant lots. "It can happen at any time to anybody," Adolpho says. "It can happen...
Part of the success of surfactant therapy has been the efficiency of liquid administration, says Avery. With infusion down the trachea, 20 times the amount of the substance reaches the lungs as compared with aerosol treatment, which was previously the standard method of administration of pulmonary drugs...