Atmosphere Forms Toxic Dioxin From Everyday Chemicals

The dioxins produced, among other things, during combustion processes are highly toxic, therefore their release is strictly regulated. But now a study shows that these long-lived organic chlorine compounds can arise from widespread chemicals in the atmosphere. Due to the solar radiation and with mineral dust particles as catalysts, highly toxic polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins and dibenzofurans (PCDD/Fs) arise there from volatile chlorinated or…