Ingestion (Swallowing): No harmful effects reported from ingestion. Signs and Symptoms: Effects of overexposure may include irritation of the nose, throat and digestive. tract, headaches, coughing, nausea, vomiting, and transient disorientation. Cancer: Inadequate evidence available to evaluate the cancer hazard of this material. Target Organs: No data available.
Brazil is the country with the greatest land area in South America. Brazil is situated in the eastern part of the South American continent and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean along the country's eastern coast. The country has a land area near 3.3 million square miles.
On Brazil's east coast, the Atlantic coastline extends 7,367 kilometers. In the west, in clockwise order from the south, Brazil has 15,719 kilometers of borders with Uruguay, Argentina, Paraguay, Bolivia, Peru, Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana (see table 2, Appendix). The only South American countries with which Brazil does not share borders are Chile and Ecuador.