Then there are cedar closets, mothballs, leathers treated with tanning agents and dyes and even stuffed animals sprayed with flame retardants.
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Anthracene, which is used as a leather tanning agent, can cause problems in the kidneys and liver and is also considered a carcinogen.
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Reade tried treating paper with a tanning agent used in making leather and found that after sensitization the paper darkened more rapidly when exposed.
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This is done to bring down the pH of collagen to a very low level so as to facilitate the penetration of mineral tanning agent into the substance.
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He describes the water being " as red as blood " in some parts, as a result of pollutant tanning agents from the leather dressers in the area.
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By the decade's end, the beauty industry previously dominated by lightening creams and pale powders, for women of European and African ancestry alike, began the production of artificial tanning agents.
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A cheap and industrially feasible method has been developed to extract anthocyanins from mulberry fruit which could be used as a fabric tanning agent or food colorant of high color value ( above 100 ).
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Tanbark from oak, mimosa, chestnut and quebracho tree has traditionally been the primary source of tannery tannin, though inorganic tanning agents are also in use today and account for 90 % of the world's leather production.
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The early years of settlement were hard with farmers relying on sandalwood cutting and the bark from mallee trees ( it was used as a tanning agent ) to compensate for poor returns from wheat and sheep.
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They are also used as dispersants in synthetic and natural rubbers, and as tanning agents ( syntans ) in leather industries, agricultural formulations ( dispersants for pesticides ), dyes and as a dispersant in lead acid battery plates.
