Comparative evaluation of the active eye and skin chemical splash decontamination solutions Diphoterine and Hexafluorine with water and other rinsing solutions: Effects on burn severity and healing

More than thirty million inorganic and organic substances are registered by the Chemical Abstract Service (CAS). About 600,000 are commonly used in industry and several thousand new molecules are created each year as the result of research. More than 25,000 irritant and corrosive chemicals have been identified as having the potential to cause burns. In Europe, 104,031 commercial chemical substances have been recognized and numbered under the European Inventory of Existing Commercial Chemical Substances

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