Dependable information from the Chemical Enquiries Help Desk in 48 hours.  Each month library staff look at one of the many enquiries received and highlight selected resources, including the Virtual Library, that provide relevant answers.    

The enquiry this month 

• My company has bought a cheap supply of cadmium chloride.  We need a quick run down of the uses, properties, hazard and environmental data.           

FREE of charge to members, the RSC Virtual Library is an excellent place to start your background research with premium e-book resources to take you from the basics to properties, the environment, health and safety.  The full text e-journals and journals databases will help you keep up with the most up to date journal articles in this area.

In Knovel full text e-books: 

• The Handbook of Inorganic Chemicals entry includes Uses (Cadmium  chloride is used in metal finishing bath for cadmium plating Photocopying, dyeing and printing); Physical Properties e.g. density, solubility; and preparation
• The Dictionary of Substances and their Effects gives quantitative data on ecotoxicity, genotoxicity including carcinogenic and chronic affects
• The Environmental Contaminant Reference Databook entry includes advice on cleanup, disposal method, persistence, inhalation limit and chronic  hazard levels      

From the Environment Index bibliographic database via the EBSCO platform 

• Physiological, morphological and metabolic changes in Tetrahymena pyriformis for the in vivo cytotoxicity assessment of metallic pollution: Impact on d-beta dehydrogenase. By: Mountassif, Driss; Kabine, Mostafa; Manar, Rachid; Bourhim, Noureddine; Zaroual, Zaina; Latruffe, Norbert; El  Kebbaj, M'Hammed Saïd. Ecological Indicators, Nov2007, Vol. 7 Issue 4, p882-894
• Oral exposure to cadmium chloride triggers an acute inflammatory response in the intestines of mice, initiated by the over-expression of tissue  macrophage inflammatory protein-2 mRNA. By: Zhao, Zhaohui; Hyun, Ja Shil; Satsu, Hideo; Kakuta, Shigeru; Shimizu, Makoto. Toxicology Letters,  Jul2006, Vol. 164 Issue 2, p144-154
• Induction of micronuclei and binuclei in blood, gill and liver cells of fishes subchronically exposed to cadmium chloride and copper sulphate. By: Cavas, Tolga; Garanko, Natasha N.; Arkhipchuk, Victor V.. Food & Chemical Toxicology, Apr2005, Vol. 43 Issue 4, p569-574
  

As part of the services of the Chemical Enquiries Help Desk we can supplement the information above with references retrieved from Chemical Abstracts, Scopus, Web of Science.

Members can carry out their own high quality research from the Virtual Library simply by logging in to a resource with their membership number and password.