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Chlorinated paraffins (CP) consist of alkanes of the C10-C30 range with different degrees of chlorination. Commercially produced CP therefore consist of a variety of isomers with different chain lengths and chlorine content and a range or mean is given for each batch produced.
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Meijer, J., Rundgren, M., Åström, A., Depierre, J.W., Sundvall, A., Rannug, U. (1982). Effects of Chlorinated Paraffins on Some Drug-Metabolizing Enzymes in Rat Liver and in the Ames Test. In: Snyder, R., et al. Biological Reactive Intermediates—II. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, vol 136. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-0674-1_64
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