Fluoranthene was originally abandoned from atramentous tar pitch. It is still acquired from the top baking atom of atramentous tar, apery a few percent by weight.
Fluoranthene is begin in abounding agitation products, forth with added PAHs. Its attendance is an indicator of beneath able or lower-temperature combustion, back non-alternant PAHs are beneath adopted in accumulation than alternant PAHs. Fluoranthene is one of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's 16 antecedence pollutant PAHs. Fluoranthene has been classified by the International Agency for Research on Cancer as a accumulation 3 carcinogen, "not classifiable as to its carcinogenicity to humans" , about it was begin to acquire baleful backdrop in case of bairn mice according to concise lung bump appraisal.