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The Toxicology of Chrysotile-Containing brake Debris: Implications for Mesothelioma [PDF]
Critical Reviews in Toxicology, 2019 The global use of asbestos in various commercial products has led to a wide range and pervasive legacy of disease. One such use of chrysotile asbestos wasbrake pads and was utilised commonly in automobiles and heavy vehicles.
Poland, Craig, Duffin, Rodger
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American Mineralogist, 2021 Today, cancer is one of the main health issues faced in the workplace, with asbestos an important carcinogen in the occupational environment. Among the asbestos minerals, chrysotile is the main species of socio-economic and industrial relevance. Although
Ballirano P. +10 more
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Raman Micro-Spectroscopy Identifies Carbonaceous Particles Lying on the Surface of Crocidolite, Amosite, and Chrysotile Fibers [PDF]
Minerals, 2018 Micro-Raman spectroscopy has been applied on UICC (Union for International Cancer Control’s) crocidolite and amosite from South Africa and on UICC chrysotile from Canada. Under Optical Microscope (OM), the surface of the fibers was often characterized by
Alessandro Croce +2 more
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The crystal structure of mineral fibres. 1. Chrysotile [PDF]
, 2016 This work reports the results of the structural study of three representative chrysotile samples of different provenance (Canadian UICC, and Italian Balangero and Valmalenco). Chemical composition was determined using EMPA and TG data.
Gualtieri, A. F. +15 more
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Mortality from cancer and other causes among Italian chrysotile asbestos miners
Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 2017 Enrico Pira +5 more
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Definitions, 2020 Requests for permission to reproduce or translate WHO publications – whether for sale or for non-commercial distribution– should be addressed to WHO Press through the WHO website (The designations employed and the presentation of the material in this ...
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The health effects of short fiber chrysotile and amphibole asbestos
Critical Reviews in Toxicology, 2022 The potential toxic effects of short chrysotile and amphibole asbestos fibers with lengths
D. Bernstein
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Chrysotile asbestos migration in air from contaminated water: An experimental simulation.
Journal of Hazardous Materials, 2021 In Naturally Occurring Asbestos (NOA) rich areas, water flows through asbestos bearing rocks and soils and generates waterborne fibres that may migrate in air and become a risk for humans. Research on the migration and dispersion after water vaporisation
C. Avataneo +12 more
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A critical review of the 2020 EPA risk assessment for chrysotile and its many shortcomings
Critical Reviews in Toxicology, 2021 From 2018 to 2020, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) performed a risk evaluation of chrysotile asbestos to evaluate the hazards of asbestos-containing products (e.g.
D. Paustenbach +3 more
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Minerals, 2021 An environmentally friendly activation method of peroxymonosulfate (PMS) provides a promising advanced oxidation processes for the degradation of organic wastewater. In this article, chrysotile, extracted from asbestos tailings, was found to be a kind of
Ying Dai +6 more
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