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Characterization of Asbestos in Ambient Air During Refractory Material Production from Magnesite Ore

Journal of Advanced Research in Natural and Applied Sciences, 2021
Asbestos is a general term employed for crystallized silicate minerals in fibril form. It can be commonly found in nature and from which fibre uses in the industry through processing are obtained.
Mehmet Ali Küçüker
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The Haber Bosch Catalyst from Solid state Chemistry to Mesotechnology

Advanced Energy Materials, Volume 15, Issue 33, September 2, 2025.
A comprehensive, multi‐scale, multi‐modal study of the structural diversity of a technical multi‐promoted Haber Bosch catalyst for ammonia synthesis is provided. The different contributions of ammonia Fe are revealed and the presence of cement phases that have yet not been incorporated into discussions on the function of this catalyst system is shown ...
Kassiogé Dembélé, Jihao Wang, Maxime Boniface, Jan Folke, Luis Sandoval Diaz, Frank Girgsdies, Adnan Hammud, David Kordus, Gregor Koch, Zahra Gheisari, Raoul Blume, Wulyu Jiang, Axel Knop‐Gericke, Rene Eckert, Stephan Reitmeier, Andreas Reitzmann, Robert Schlögl, Beatriz Roldan Cuenya, Janis Timoshenko, Holger Ruland, Thomas Lunkenbein   +20 more
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Advances in epidemiology and population-based prevention and control of cancers caused by asbestos exposure

生物医学转化
Asbestos is a collective term for six natural mineral fibers that have been widely used commercially. These fibers are classified into two main groups: amphibole asbestos (including crocidolite, tremolite, actinolite, anthophyllite, and amosite) and ...
Huang Qiulin, Lian Fuzhi, Chen Tianhui
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Radiographic Changes in Colombian Asbestos Factory Workers

Annals of Global Health, 2020
Background: Until recently, Colombia has been a country actively using asbestos. A major factory in Bogota manufactures friction products. Objective: To determine if the use of chrysotile asbestos in a friction products facility leads to workers ...
Arthur L. Frank, Guillermo Villamizar, Jose Gabriel Bustillo Pereira   +2 more
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Quantitative Assessment of Asbestos Fibers in Normal and Pathological Peritoneal Tissue—A Scoping Review

Life, 2022
Peritoneal tissue is the second most affected site by malignant mesothelioma linked to asbestos exposure. This scoping review aims to summarize the findings of the studies in which asbestos fibers in the peritoneum were quantified by electron microscopy,
Yohama Caraballo-Arias, Carlotta Zunarelli, Paola Caffaro, Francesco Roccuzzo, Mattia Roberto Nocilla, Maria Chiara Imperiale, Clara Romano, Paolo Boffetta, Francesco Saverio Violante   +8 more
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Petrology and Geochemistry of Ophiolitic Pyroxenite in the Eastern Desert of Egypt: Genesis of Ultramafic Cumulates and Implications for Neoproterozoic Supra‐Subduction Seafloor Metamorphism

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, Volume 26, Issue 3, March 2025.
Abstract We describe and compare two outcrops of pyroxenite associated with Neoproterozoic ophiolite sequences in the Eastern Desert of Egypt: small masses in the Abu Samuki area of the North Eastern Desert and large belts in the Wadi El‐Mireiwa area of the South Eastern Desert.
Hussam A. Selim, Paul D. Asimow, Ayman E. Maurice, Mohamad A. Ismail, Oliver D. Wilner, Nathan F. Dalleska, Moustafa E. Gharib, Safinaz A. A. Mahmoud   +7 more
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Design and application of environmentally effective concrete with usage of chrysotile-cement waste

MATEC Web of Conferences, 2016
Construction is resource-demanding industry, characterized by a large volume of waste. Particularly chrysotile cement waste obtained both in production and in dismantling over age chrysotile-cement products: corrugated asbestos boards and flat sheets ...
Egorova Lada, Semenov Vyacheslav, Pligina Anna, Askhadullin Aizat   +3 more
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Effect of asbestos exposure on differentiation and function of cytotoxic T lymphocytes

Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine, 2020
Asbestos exposure is known to cause malignant mesothelioma, which is associated with poor prognosis. We focused on and examined the effect of asbestos exposure on the differentiation and function of cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTLs).
Naoko Kumagai-Takei, Yasumitsu Nishimura, Megumi Maeda, Hiroaki Hayashi, Hidenori Matsuzaki, Suni Lee, Kei Yoshitome, Tatsuo Ito, Takemi Otsuki   +8 more
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Asbestos Burden in Lungs of Subjects Deceased From Mesothelioma Who Lived in Proximity to an Asbestos Factory: A Topographic Post‐Mortem SEM‐EDS Study

American Journal of Industrial Medicine, Volume 68, Issue 2, Page 112-121, February 2025.
ABSTRACT Background Asbestos exposure and its pathological consequences, especially malignant mesothelioma (MM) still represent a major public health problem on a global scale. After the ban of asbestos in most western countries, nonoccupational exposure plays an essential role in MM pathogenesis.
Silvia Damiana Visonà, Matthew Untalan, Barbara Bertoglio, Silvana Capella, Elena Belluso, Marco Billò, Tara Ivic‐Pavlicic, Emanuela Taioli   +7 more
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Occupational and Hobby Exposures Associated With Myositis Phenotypes in a National Myositis Patient Registry

Arthritis Care &Research, Volume 77, Issue 1, Page 104-115, January 2025.
Objective The objective of this study was to investigate occupational and hobby exposures to silica, solvents, and heavy metals and the odds of having the idiopathic inflammatory myopathy (IIM) phenotypes dermatomyositis (DM) and polymyositis (PM) versus inclusion body myositis (IBM), lung disease plus fever or arthritis (LD+), and systemic autoimmune ...
Christine G. Parks, Jesse Wilkerson, Kathryn M. Rose, Abdullah Faiq, Payam Noroozi Farhadi, Nastaran Bayat, Adam Schiffenbauer, Hermine I. Brunner, Bob Goldberg, Dale P. Sandler, Frederick W. Miller, Lisa G. Rider   +11 more
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