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#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 …

…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**