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Industrialization has resulted in the increased use of a wide variety of chemicals. Contamination of the environment may occur at any stage of the life cycle of a chemical, i.e. during manufacturing, storage, use and disposal. After release a chemical will initially be transported within the environmental compartment in which the emission occurs. Depending on its basic properties a released chemical generally will be transformed to a certain extent as a result of physical, chemical and/or biological processes. Moreover, in most cases the chemical will enter other environmental compartments, resulting in subsequent transport and transformation. Regarding the environmental compartments a distinction can be made between abiotic compartments such as air, (ground)water and soil and biotic compartments, e.g. human beings, flora and fauna.
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van Deelen, C.L. (1989). Methods for Assessing the Risk of Environmental Contamination. In: Seip, H.M., Heiberg, A.B. (eds) Risk Management of Chemicals in the Environment. NATO · Challenges of Modern Society, vol 12. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-5604-2_3
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