title: Dealing with spills of hazardous chemicals: some nitrosamides.
abstract: Spills of N-methyl-N-nitrosourea, N-ethyl-N-nitrosourea, N-methyl-N-nitrosourethane and N-ethyl-N-nitrosourethane can be decontaminated using a mixture of ethanol and saturated aqueous sodium bicarbonate solution. Spills of N-methyl-N-nitroso-p-toluenesulphonamide, N-methyl-N'-nitro-N-nitrosoguanidine and N-ethyl-N'-nitro-N-nitrosoguanidine can be decontaminated with a solution of sulphamic acid in 2 M-hydrochloric acid. In all cases the nitrosamides are completely destroyed and only non-mutagenic reaction mixtures are produced.
authors.affiliation: Environmental Control and Research Program, National Cancer Institute-Frederick Cancer Research Facility, MD 21701-1013.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Lunn
authors.forename: E B
authors.initials: EB
authors.lastname: Sansone
mesh_terms: D002851:Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid; D003666:Decontamination; D005038:Ethylnitrosourea; D006256:Hazardous Waste; D008770:Methylnitrosourea; D009603:Nitroso Compounds; D009605:Nitrosomethylurethane / Q000031:analogs & derivatives; D012722:Sewage; D014865:Waste Disposal, Fluid
chemical_list: D006256:Hazardous Waste; D009603:Nitroso Compounds; D012722:Sewage; C013621:nitrosamides; C022881:N-ethyl-N-nitrosourethane; D009605:Nitrosomethylurethane; D008770:Methylnitrosourea; D005038:Ethylnitrosourea