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<br /> <br /> <br />1 <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />1 <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />~~ <br /> <br /> <br />1 <br /> <br />16 BIOIgGICAL REPORT 85(1.23) <br />Table 2. Continued. <br />Environmental Concentrations <br />compartment (mg~kg or mg/L) Reference° <br />Mammals (continued) <br />Plasma <br />Nonsmokers 0.05; Mex. 0.11 1Q <br />Smokers 0.075; Max. 0.3 10 <br />Nonbiologicel <br />Air <br />Automobile exhaust <br />Adverse conditions Max. 10.0 1 <br />Equipped with catalytic convertor 1.1 1 <br />Sewage sluge <br />From publicly owned treatment works, United States 749 1~ <br />Water, uncontaminated <br />Rural watersheds 0.003 11,12 <br />Industrial areas 0.02 11,12 <br />Small watersheds, covered with grasslands and <br />forest, uninhabited by humans 0.0007-0.002; Max. 0.005 12 <br />Western and central Canada, 11 rivers, 1974-77 Max. 0.006 12 <br />U.S. water supplies, 2,595 samples nationwide 0.0009; Max. 0.008 1,13 <br />U.K water supplies <0.05; Max. 0.1 1 <br />Wastewaterdrunoff <br />Electroplaters <br />Total cyanide 0.2; Max. 3.0 19,13 <br />Dissociable cyanide 0.07 19 <br />Complex cyanide 0.2 19 <br />Thiocyanate 0.02 13 <br />Plating wastewater <br />Before treatment with alkaline chlorination 0.18 18 <br />After treatment 0.005 18 <br />Road salt dock <br />Total cyanide 25.6 19 <br />Dissociable cyanide 2.9 19 <br />Complex cyanide 23.1 15 <br />Thiocyanate 0.0 15 <br />Steel industry <br />Plating baths 72 (9-115) 1,14 <br />Coke oven liquor 6 (0-8) 7 <br />Oil refineries <br />Total cyanide 0.01; Max. 4.0 14,15 <br />Dissociable cyanide 0.0 15 <br />Complex cyanide 0.01 15 <br />Thiocyanate 2.2 15 <br />Coking operations <br />Total cyanide 2.1 15 <br />Dissociable cyanide 0.3 15 <br />Complex cyanide 0.8 13 <br />Thion•anate 23.6 15 <br />Hospital wastewaters <br />Before alkaline chlorination ND 17 <br />After treatment 0.06 17 <br />Gold mills, Canada 0.3-26.5 14 <br />Gold mine cyanide extraction leach ponds, <br />California, Nevada, and Arizona Usually 200-300, frequently 19 <br /> 700, occasionally 9,000 <br />Y <br /> <br />