dioxane
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- noun
- /daɪˈoʊkeɪn/
- Specialized
- Women's Voices for the Earth released a report in November 2011, Dirty Secrets: What's Hiding in Your Cleaning Products?, which revealed high levels of the cancer-causing chemical 1,4-dioxane hiding out in Tide and Tide Free & Gentle.
- 1,4-dioxane
- remove dioxane
Examples
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Procter & Gamble's position is that "1,4-dioxane is a byproduct that can be formed in trace amounts during the manufacturing of ingredients needed for cleaning products."
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The level of 1,4-dioxane in our product is below the suggested levels established in draft guidance by the EPA.
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Someone would have to wash and wear over one thousand loads of laundry every day to even approach the upper limit of exposure for 1,4-dioxane.
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This toxic chemical, 1,4-dioxane, doesn't appear on the product label or on the product website, so consumers have no way of knowing it's even there.
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In laboratories, 1,4-dioxane is often used as a solvent for various chemical reactions.
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The industrial plant used 1,4-dioxane to stabilize certain chemical compounds during production.
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Health officials are concerned about the contamination of drinking water with 1,4-dioxane, a known hazardous substance.
Surface Forms
Etymology
Dioxane begins with di- ('two') and includes a part from oxygen, so its name literally points to 'two oxygens' in the molecule's ring. That's why dioxane is the name for a colorless liquid solvent that contains two oxygen atoms in its ring.