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Throwing away car batteries can lead to toxic chemical leaks because of the chemicals which are used to make them. When old car batteries are recycled and taken to factories they are separated into lead and plastic casings, and from there lead goes into new lead grids and lead oxide whereas the plastic goes into new cases.

This is a video showing the recycling process for used lead car batteries. Recycling of batteries is very important as lead is extremly toxic.

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If not disposed of correctly chemicals like lead may leak and harm the environment terribly. For example, the Thiaroye Sur Mer, Senegal lead recycling factory, which killed many neighboring children and intoxicated the majority of the neighborhood. It has braindamaged infants and toddlers and caused many mothers to have stillborns.  People need to be aware that problems like these happen in third world countries and go unnoticed. Countries that have great automobile demands like North America and Europe have moved over seas to manufacture car batteries where labour is cheap. They also don't dispose of the toxic waste properly because they know there are no government regulations concerning proper disposal of lead-acid batteries or any other environmental regulations.

This a video interviewing a few people from the suburbs of Dakar inquiring about the lead contamination.

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The 10th worst pollutant is used car battery recycling. It causes a lot of toxins to be released in the air.Thus, being harmful for the environment and any living thing whether animals, humans or even plants. Lead could possibly effect you through three environment ways:  1.Lead in air
 * Particles of lead released from vehicles;[[image:cedarbraechemistry/leadacid.png width="312" height="268" align="right" caption="A man cleaning up a car-battery disposal area"]]
 * It is existent in the atmosphere;

 2. Lead in the water
 * It usually creates a compound which partially dissolves in water;

 3. Lead in soil
 * Paint; and
 * Industrial compostion

What I learned: <span style="color: #852323; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">1. 4 Super Glue Pratheep Logaranjan
 * <span style="color: #852323; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Super glue is also known as cyanoacrylate
 * <span style="color: #852323; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">It can heal wounds on your body
 * <span style="color: #852323; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Several drops of super glue will hold a two ton truck in the air

<span style="color: #852323; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">2. 5iodinegasira
 * <span style="color: #852323; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Iodine was created accidentally
 * <span style="color: #852323; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Iodine has a melting point of 114 °C
 * <span style="color: #852323; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Iodine was created by Courtois

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