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| Perchlorate has been in the news since the discovery of the significant contamination of the lower Colorado river. Perchlorate competes with iodide, which is essential for proper thyroid function in adults and for neural development in infants. There are two sodium iodide symporters in mammals, one is in the thyroid glands and the other is present in female mammary glands, the only means by which iodide is delivered to a breastfed infant. Much like most synthetic anion exchangers, perchlorate has much greater affinity for the symporter sites than iodide, effectively reducing iodide transport even at low perchlorate levels. While the production of perchlorate as a fuel oxidizer may indeed be to blame for the contamination of the lower Colorado, easily measurable levels of perchlorate in groundwater in many places in the Texas panhandle, hundreds of miles away from any known perchlorate production facility, suggests that all perchlorate did not originate as rocket fuel. This talk will discuss my personal involvement in the intensely politicized continuing perchlorate saga and its omnipresence and what it might mean for people in West Texas. This talk will discuss my personal involvement in the intensely politicized continuing perchlorate saga and its omnipresence and what it might mean for people in West Texas.
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Assuring Water Purity
8:30 AM-12:00 PM, Wednesday, 29 March 2006 Georgia World Congress Center -- B214, Oral
Sci-Mix
Division of Analytical Chemistry |